Decentralization
PeerTube is a decentralized network, which means there is no single point of failure. Videos are shared across multiple nodes, making it more resilient to censorship and outages.
Privacy
Since it is open-source and self-hosted, users have greater control over their data and how it is shared, which can lead to enhanced privacy.
Community Focus
PeerTube is often community-driven and there is a strong emphasis on community support, making it a welcoming platform for niche content creators.
Federation
PeerTube uses the ActivityPub protocol for federation, allowing instances to communicate with each other and users to interact across different servers.
Open Source
PeerTube is open-source, allowing anyone to inspect, modify, and improve the codebase. This encourages transparency and community contributions.
No Ads
PeerTube does not rely on advertising revenue, providing a cleaner viewing experience without intrusive ads.
ActivityPub does have https://joinpeertube.org for what it’s worth. What would ATProto bring in specifically? Is it the ease of migration?
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14 days ago
That’s literally PeerTube you’re describing. https://joinpeertube.org/.
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3 months 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…
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10 months ago
If you’re looking for YouTube alternatives, you might be interested in PeerTube. PeerTube is to YouTube what Mastodon is to Twitter. (Plus PeerTube and Mastodon use the same federation technology. You can follow PeerTube accounts from inside Mastodon and vice versa.).
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10 months ago
Hey! Just a rando here, but I would be interested in hearing your opinion as to where Peertube does well with this wish list and where it needs improvement. https://joinpeertube.org https://framablog.org/2023/11/28/peertube-v6-is-out-and-powered-by-your-ideas/.
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10 months ago
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.
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10 months ago
> YouTube (and other mainstream providers) solves user stories. The user story is “I want to find and watch interesting videos” and they nail it. You miss another user story: IT department wants to self host a video distributing platform on their intranet and users need to embed video in intranet CMS (blogs, wikis, etc.) and they will watch those videos at home, at the office and in between places. Thinking…
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10 months ago
Exactly what you described exists and is called PeerTube. https://joinpeertube.org https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube.
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11 months ago
> Why don’t you or someone else try starting one? https://joinpeertube.org/ There are several instances, but that is not the solution to what the parent comment is pointing out. Videos are being published on YouTube because of network effect; it has become the defacto platform.
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11 months ago
There already is an alternative to youtube. Peertube https://joinpeertube.org/ The problem is most content creators are only publishing on YouTube, so that is where you have to go. If you are a content creator please publish on peertube so we have options. If you know a creator, likewise encourage them to publish there.
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11 months ago
If people don’t want to pay for YouTube, then why not use peertube[0]? I don’t understand the arguments here. If you don’t want ads, then pay for Premium. It’s fantastic that an option exists to solve the problem! If you don’t like the price, then don’t pay for it. Somehow people have got it in their minds that YouTube owes them content for free. That’s a great mindset to make the shift to peertube and away from…
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11 months ago
Local servers (dietpi, Freedombox, YUNoHost or similar solutions) which can be used to host different solarpunk content and setup instances on the fediverse (like peertube, mastodon, Lemmy etc.).
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12 months ago
I learned a lot from the ngx-admin template but if you want a real world project PeerTube‘s Web app written in Angular you can check it out here.
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about 1 year ago
Fediverse, or ‘federated universe’ is the name given to the social media platforms that utilize this concept of federation and decentralization. While Lemmy and Mastodon are the most popular right now, there are many similar platforms. There is Peertube for example, which is a Youtube alternative, or Pixelfed, which is an instagram alternative. You can view a list of all such platforms on this site. Here’s also a…
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about 1 year ago
Peertube(like youtube) https://joinpeertube.org/.
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about 1 year ago
Definitely a good fediverse example: https://joinpeertube.org/. You can even do live streaming now.
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over 1 year ago
GIFs are an (animated) image format. If its a small video you might be able to convert it into a reasonable sized GIF (via something like https://giphy.com/create/gifmaker). Otherwise linking to an external site will be your best option. Peertube exists for Fediverse video sharing, though you can always share on a silo like Youtube too.
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over 1 year ago
There are technical solutions to lessen the load on servers. For example, PeerTube uses a peer-to-peer broadcasting system. When watching a video, your browser tries to download it from other people who are watching it, instead of just the website’s server.
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over 1 year ago
There is also Peertube for videos and Pixelfed for images.
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over 1 year ago
The Fediverse has many different types of platforms, including video hosting on Peertube or Friendica which is similar to Facebook. Mastodon got the most publicity, but it only uses a fraction of the possibilities that ActivityPub offers.
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over 1 year ago
Band together and either find or an alternative or make one! Peertube is an existing platform that’s opensource.
There are no secret algorithms, no major decision makers you’ll have to fight,… it’s completely in their hands. They could band together to pay for features like a donation plugin (aka no need for a patreon) just like Humble Bundle where donators can decide how much of the donation goes to the people…
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over 1 year ago
