Version 5.2 of PeerTube is out! | JoinPeerTube
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  • Booteille@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

    Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don’t need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn’t disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

    If you are curious about PeerTube, I can’t recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

    The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

    Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

    If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

  • poVoq@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Ah, the remote transcode function will really help with hosting it. You can get a relatively cheap VPS with fast net connection, but those usually lack the CPU power to transcode the videos on upload. But now it seems like you can have a fast PC somewhere on a reasonably fast fiber line onto which you can off-load the video transcoding job easily.

  • oldfart@lemm.eeEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The runner idea is amazing! Great engineering if you can run it anywhere.

    Now, if there was some content half as good as their tech stack.

  • dska22@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    Does anybody use Peertube here? How is it? Good content? Accessible from mobile?

    • dedale@kbin.social
      3·
      1 year ago

      I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
      But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
      They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
      Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

      I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

      It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.

    • Fell@ma.fellr.net
      3·
      1 year ago

      I would love to use it more, but there is just nothing on there to watch except for a few channels that just mirror a YouTube channel, or niche FOSS content.

    • Ignacio@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      I migrated some videos I had on YouTube to PeerTube last year. But apart from that, I use it less time than I would like to.

    • sab@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have never had any success in using it the same way you’d often use YouTube, by going to the front page and looking for content.

      However, after a few years on Mastodon, I have often found myself watching videos from Peertube that popped up in my feed. As the speed of the stream depends on the capacity of the host instance of Peertube, I would often encounter performance issues when watching Peertube videos a few years ago, but the last year or so it has been nothing but great.

      And since it’s the Fediverse, you could follow for example @blender and have all their future videos show up directly in the feed of whatever platform you’re on. :)

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