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Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

#44

Post by Animats »

PeerTube does not have enough bandwidth to work.

Try PeerTube. Here's a cat video. Posted 1 week ago, 38 views, duration 10 seconds.

https://peertube.tv/w/tsvCimhEaLSTZD16B3gqBQ

Even as the only watcher, and with gigabit Internet both ways at my end, it stuttered, then stalled completely.

For short videos, you'd be better off putting them on a shared hosting site as .mp4 files.

Peer to peer video hosting is just not a good idea for bandwidth reasons.

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

#45

Post by smoldesu »

Off topic, but the other day I switched to FreeTube (freetube.io) and it's been quite nice. It's not a comprehensive YouTube client (lacks true theming, plugins, etc.), it offers a lot of features that will be helpful for people who want to use YouTube without Google getting in the way.

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

#46

Post by rapnie »

mdoms wrote: post #33
jstx1 wrote: post #20

I was wondering who they were and why they were self-saboting. Then I saw that it's a channel with 20 subscribers on youtube with view numbers in the single digits for some videos. So somebody went from not being watched on youtube, to not being watched on peertube. How did this even make it to the front page?

This forum will launch anything decentralized or federated onto the front page.

I would guess that is because of high levels of interest in decentralized / federated web technologies then. In any case I am with that crowd too.

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

#47

Post by yawaramin »

Animats wrote: post #44

PeerTube does not have enough bandwidth to work. Try PeerTube. Here's a cat video. Posted 1 week ago, 38 views, duration 10 seconds. https://peertube.tv/w/tsvCimhEaLSTZD16B3gqBQ Even as the only watcher, and with gigabit Internet both ways at my end, it stuttered, then stalled completely. For short videos, you'd be better off putting them on a shared hosting site as .mp4 files. Peer to peer video hosting is just not…

Worked fine for me with maybe one stutter. Anyway, that's once instance of PT, there are others. E.g. I've never noticed any issues with https://watch.ocaml.org/

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

#48

Post by tomComb »

judge2020 wrote: post #18
chairhairair wrote: post #12

The channel in this post has 20 YouTube subscribers and no more than a couple thousand total YouTube views. The trending page on PeerTube shows a list of videos with at most a few dozen views. Is PeerTube supremely unpopular (seems to have been launched several years ago: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube), or am I missing something? Does it really have an order of magnitude more Github stars ( https://github.com/Chocob…

A lot of people see the usefulness of PeerTube but don't move because the creators they watch are on YouTube. It's the same for the creators, though - they can't move off of YouTube entirely, because none of their viewers will go to a PeerTube instance just to watch that one creator. Thus nobody moves to PT unless there are other factors (like extremist creators moving because their videos keep getting removed by YT)…

"It's the same for the creators, though - they can't move off of YouTube entirely, because none of their viewers will go to a PeerTube instance just to watch that one creator."

Is it so hard to be on both? Something I like about YouTube compared to some other platforms is they never (to the best of my knowledge) engage in exclusives or impose exclusivity conditions. And even when they develop new features, I've rarely seen Google try to restrict those.

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

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Post by rastafang »

jstx1 wrote: post #20

I was wondering who they were and why they were self-saboting. Then I saw that it's a channel with 20 subscribers on youtube with view numbers in the single digits for some videos. So somebody went from not being watched on youtube, to not being watched on peertube. How did this even make it to the front page?

Every little bits count

Re: Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]

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Post by echlipse »

yawaramin wrote: post #47
Animats wrote: post #44

PeerTube does not have enough bandwidth to work. Try PeerTube. Here's a cat video. Posted 1 week ago, 38 views, duration 10 seconds. https://peertube.tv/w/tsvCimhEaLSTZD16B3gqBQ Even as the only watcher, and with gigabit Internet both ways at my end, it stuttered, then stalled completely. For short videos, you'd be better off putting them on a shared hosting site as .mp4 files. Peer to peer video hosting is just not…

Worked fine for me with maybe one stutter. Anyway, that's once instance of PT, there are others. E.g. I've never noticed any issues with https://watch.ocaml.org/

Both the videos referenced above worked smoothly for me. I’m on a 30 mbps cable Internet connection.
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