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I feel like it would be best to proxy YouTube, or subscribe to paid indie channels like nebula, but without a user base and without ad revenue or subscription revenue I don’t know how quality content can come to PeerTube. Maybe I’m just missing the content but when I’ve checked it’s all very low quality, just random unedited webcam vblogs mostly.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Peertube allegedly uses p2p networking that runs in your browser to serve videos. It's open source but when I tried to actually read up on the protocol large parts of the docs were in french

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago

I think it's basically just bittorrent.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago