Our plans for PeerTube v4 • Hacker News Board

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by IshKebab » Sat, Apr 17, 2021, 8:07 AM UTC

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #127

IshKebab wrote: post #113

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Surely that's most instances? I don't see why the Blender instance would follow the Extinction Rebellion instance for example? And doesn't that make it an N^2 problem? Does every instance have to follow every other instance to make this work?

Actually, with v3, you can follow "any" peertube channel or account regardless of whether your instance does the same or not. Earlier this was only possible with a mastodon/pleroma account only. Now your peertube user account in instance "a" can follow any channel anywhere in the fediverse. This is like you want to follow some channel from tilvids.com but dont want to follow the entire instance.

Right but you can surely follow channels just with RSS? Federation is only required for commenting and voting.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by 2Gkashmiri » Tue, Apr 20, 2021, 4:00 PM UTC

IshKebab wrote: post #171

2Gkashmiri wrote: post #127

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, with v3, you can follow "any" peertube channel or account regardless of whether your instance does the same or not. Earlier this was only possible with a mastodon/pleroma account only. Now your peertube user account in instance "a" can follow any channel anywhere in the fediverse. This is like you want to follow some channel from tilvids.com but dont want to follow the entire instance.

Right but you can surely follow channels just with RSS? Federation is only required for commenting and voting.

yes. you only need an account in one "instance" and you can comment or aggregate videos from any participating instance and comment on the videos as if you had a local account there. Social function is a big deal of activitypub

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by errhead » Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 3:48 PM UTC

amelius wrote: post #75

rosmax_1337 wrote: post #12

I am very hopeful for Peertube and their project, since I'm currently partaking in hosting a large video website for otherwise content too controversial for mainstream platforms like Youtube. (Political content if you were wondering, but I won't indulge what kind) This takes back control to creators in such a way that essentially only domain registrars will be able to dictate what content may stay alive on the intern…

> only domain registrars will be able to dictate what content may stay alive on the internet Can't/doesn't PeerTube work with IP-addresses directly?

The standard install requires a domain to get a certificate for https.

Re: Our plans for PeerTube v4

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Post by errhead » Sat, Apr 24, 2021, 4:10 PM UTC

rijoja wrote: post #124

Would it be possible to set up some form of CDN. I.e. a service where you could submit torrent links so that "peertubers" could pool their resources somehow, or if you would like to support certain user by making sure that they get the bandwidth? So I am thinking of nodes that wouldn't actually host the websites but rather only would accept bittorrent URIs and then seeding them. To make sure that the ecosystem doesn'…

PeerTube uses p2p in the browser, so something going viral means the server has minimal traffic besides matchmaking data blocks betwixt clients.