cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/29207242

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 with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don’t need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn’t disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, we 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.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

If you want to follow the PeerTube project:

  • tisktisk@piefed.socialEnglish
    8·
    9 hours ago

    What does peertube solve ultimately? How can we be confident in it’s sustainability and roadmap? The idea sounds great but the practicality seems to be missing. (Not knocking it, just curious)

    • ThorrJo@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 hours ago

      one important aspect: it defrays the cost of hosting popular videos somewhat via a bittorrent-like mechanism. but as I understand it, they have to be popular enough that >1 person on the planet is watching them simultaneously for this to make a difference.

    • Glitchvid@lemmy.worldEnglish
      15·
      9 hours ago

      It solves a pretty hard problem that is a self-hosted video platform; a lot of places use YouTube to host videos, even if they aren’t doing so to make money through adsense, this is for their own site material, posting to groupchats, and similar purposes.

      Issue is that otherwise you rely on platform owners like Google, who can decide to unperson you, your business, or an employee. It effectively happened to me, YT terminated my channel for unsubstantiated reasons, and hosting my own peertube is likely in the future to replace where I host my decades of video content.

      Further, ideologically, we should be collectively moving away from “platforms” for what should be obvious reasons to those of us on the fediverse.

    • SolarPunker@slrpnk.netEnglish
      5·
      9 hours ago

      I think the more interest it raises, the more donations we can expect for developers and instances.

      What does peertube solve ultimately?

      Once full featured, basically everything.