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PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by foobarbecue »

mschuster91 wrote: post #52
foobarbecue wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're right that there are a lot of bad actors out there, but in my experience they are pretty easy to deal with if you set things up right. The biggest annoyance for me self-hosting has been ISP refusing to give static IP and decent upstream bandwidth. I've hosted my own website and email server for decades. It does take a little work to keep up with things like DMARC, reverse DNS etc, but if you get a good score o…

> You're right that there are a lot of bad actors out there, but in my experience they are pretty easy to deal with if you set things up right. Sure, it's possible to defend against hackers to a degree, but even using a completely static website still leaves you open to attack surfaces in the webserver software or to remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the Linux network stack. > FYI you are misusing "greylist." I…

Ah, my apologies, I jumped to conclusions that you were misusing "greylisting". I've never actually checked if I'm getting greylisted sending to large providers, but I think initial greylisting of new addressses is pretty reasonable.

My mail server (MailInABox) has postgrey enabled by default, greylisting incoming email each time email is received from a new address. I thought that was a little overzealous so turned it off.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by unintendedcons »

kmfrk wrote: post #34

Has anyone here experimented with IPFS to create a mirrored video archive for things like their YouTube channels? I don't hear much about IPFS these days.

The incentives are aligned towards token value and investment growth instead of technology development, inside the sausage factory.

I hope they get back to making useful software soon, but I'm not holding my breath.

At least it's all open source.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by HenrikB »

gabereiser wrote: post #49
sp332 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hosting large files from your house is a good way to have a saturated upstream all the time. P2P protocols like gnutella and later bittorrent are a way to distribute files without putting all the load on one host. Not to mention all the liability for pirated content.

Only because the ISP's made it that way. Having 1Gbps down and 10Mbps up. You are forced into consumerism of bandwidth instead of a peer. ISP's don't want competition so you'll never be a peer.

The asymmetry stems from the days where we connected through the phone lines, which was not designed for data. There it was possible to have a higher bandwidth out from the phone switches than in. That is, dial-up modems and DSL modems could have a much higher download speed than upload.

I don't know about cable, but I suspect it's the same there.

OTH, fiber-based internet often has symmetric speeds. Don't know the stats, but I suspect most fiber ISPs gives you that.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by cyanydeez »

ivoras wrote: post #22

This actually makes me sad :( Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse. It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone. This is how early protocols were designed. Everyone was supposed to…

The current state of cryptocurrency should be enough evidence that people want centralization as it affords the most social investment value.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by drkhn1234 »

cyanydeez wrote: post #64
ivoras wrote: post #22

This actually makes me sad :( Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse. It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone. This is how early protocols were designed. Everyone was supposed to…

The current state of cryptocurrency should be enough evidence that people want centralization as it affords the most social investment value.

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Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by goosesanta »

ivoras wrote: post #22

This actually makes me sad :( Hear me out: the Internet was supposed to be about peer-to-peer connected computers, and the privileged roles ISPs and later "cloud" providers assumed changed that for the worse. It was SUPPOSED to enable me, myself, hosting my videos, on my computer(s) and making them available to whomever I want to, including everyone. This is how early protocols were designed. Everyone was supposed to…

What you want is Urbit (though hn hates it for political reasons)

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by DoItToMe81 »

Peertube is amazing. My cheap VPS punches well above its weight thanks to it, and I can host videos that have had (low) hundreds of thousands of views without having to rate limit anybody or force registration.

I'm always quite concerned that it's practically a one man project, though. I hope it can build the community of developers that it deserves.

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by sys42590 »

codetrotter wrote: post #59
sys42590 wrote: post #6

I truly like PeerTube as a technology, however I still haven't managed to build even a minimal stock of PeerTube based content creators I'd enjoy to follow. On Youtube it's easy, there's much more high quality content about any topic imaginable than I ever could watch in my limited time on this planet, but on PeerTube instances I haven't found anything that made me come back to that particular creator. So my question…

> I still haven't managed to build even a minimal stock of PeerTube based content creators I'd enjoy to follow. May I shamelessly suggest that you check out my PeerTube channel that I host on my server? :) I have only one video so far, but will make more videos in the future. This channel is about programming, system administration, and computing. In the first video we (royal we) look at using ChatGTP to solve the fi…

That was a nice first video. Thanks for making it!

Re: PeerTube v5: the result of 5 years’ handcrafting

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Post by mschuster91 »

foobarbecue wrote: post #61
mschuster91 wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> You're right that there are a lot of bad actors out there, but in my experience they are pretty easy to deal with if you set things up right. Sure, it's possible to defend against hackers to a degree, but even using a completely static website still leaves you open to attack surfaces in the webserver software or to remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in the Linux network stack. > FYI you are misusing "greylist." I…

Ah, my apologies, I jumped to conclusions that you were misusing "greylisting". I've never actually checked if I'm getting greylisted sending to large providers, but I think initial greylisting of new addressses is pretty reasonable. My mail server (MailInABox) has postgrey enabled by default, greylisting incoming email each time email is received from a new address. I thought that was a little overzealous so turned…

It might be reasonable, but highly annoying if you run a, say, sign-up double opt-in or an email-based second factor/OTP. Customers don't like waiting an hour or whatever greylisting period, and so as a SaaS operator you are all but forced to go to one of the big e-mail senders like AWS SES because you don't stand a chance otherwise.
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