I use Lemmy and PeerTube. Host a version of both myself. I use Loops a little as well and will probably pick up Pixelfed at some point.

A nice read. I have the same opinion of the so called “tech journalists” here in Denmark. It’s crazy how little they research or know about the subject they write about.

Thanks for letting me know. It also looked like the channel was just a mirror and not official.

I could make a comment more like this one: https://lemmy.wtf/comment/12426812, but in the format you want.

I first learned about “Nicole” when I received this message through the contact form on PeerTube.wtf

https://peertube.wtf/c/beyorkisan/videos

The person would setup live streams on PeerTube, showing the same clip on a loop, of the supposedly “Nicole”.

I have this list that I try to keep up to date: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15810205

I run Funkwhale at music.peertube.wtf. Not using it for that much though 😁

No. Posts are chronological.

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Dunno if I’m too late, but here goes. My question is about federation between instances.

On PeerTube an instance follows another instance and then federates every channel and videos available.

On Lemmy, the user can follow a specific community and then that community will federate with the users instance.

How about being able to, either as the instance itself or a user, to follow an entire instance and have it federate everything?

An example. I have a user on Lemmy.wtf, but I am also very interested in the communities at Feddit.dk. I never know when new communities have been created on Feddit.dk, unless I go directly to Feddit.dk and look. If I could subscribe my instance to Feddit.dk, then all future communities would be visible to me automatically.

If something like that isn’t possible, then what about being able to browse other instance’s communities from my own instance?

This looks very awesome. So it also functions as a redundant wiki?

Wikipedia should use it. Then others can create their own wikis, which keep a version of articles of Wikipedia.

Probably Germany.

There’s at least 3-4 streamers I know about, that stream video gaming on PeerTube. They usually do multiple streams. Owncast, PeerTube and Twitch fx.

PeerTube doesn’t use WebTorrent for live streams. It uses HLS with P2P (WebRTC).

They say it’s free to use during beta, so that’s probably why there’s no price for it yet.

Really cool work.

Would be interesting if Liberapay could somehow be built into PeerTube. So you simply click the “Support” button and it asks how much and then another click. Done. The rest is handled by Liberapay, which have been set up earlier.

You are thinking about channel membership, right? This is something that could also be implemented in PeerTube, either by Framasoft themselves (devs of PeerTube) or as a plugin by anyone.

You mentioned LTT. They have their own video platform. It would have been cool if they had actually used PeerTube and build upon that instead of creating yet another “walled” video platform.

PeerTube scales by increasing the amount of instances available. But you are pretty much correct. The two things that’s expensive is: Storage and transcoding. The biggest expense is storage. It gets more and more expensive as videos is uploaded. Transcoding can become more expensive, if you have to keep up with new videos getting added all the time.

I would like to see individual content creators create their own PeerTube servers and thereby serving their content to the rest of the PeerTube servers and the Fediverse. I imagine a lot of content creators keep some kind of backup of their videos, so why not attach a PeerTube server to it? PeerTube allows you to keep the original file.

Regarding financial incentive, the “only” thing creators would miss out on, on Peertube is ad revenue. If we disregard the low amount of viewers on PeerTube compared to YouTube, a creator can still use sponsors, patreon, donations, affiliate links etc. on their videos.

It uses P2P when multiple users is watching the same video. A PeerTube server can also mirror another PeerTube server’s videos and function as a peer.

You can see it this screenshot, that I’ve downloaded most of the video data from other peers.

PeerTube is build on ActivityPub, just like Lemmy. Right now federation is broken between Lemmy and PeerTube. When it’s fixed, you’ll be able to subscribe to PeerTube channels from here and comment as well.