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Mobile App, redesign, new dev, promotion… let’s build a bright future for PeerTube! (framablog.org)

submitted 11 months ago by Framasoft@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9483559

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, I 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums

submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform

Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide

Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

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[–] penquin@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago (7 children)

I want to use it but I don't fully understand how it works. Does it use my device a storage for videos? Or does it only use it as a sharing device without storing the video on it? Does it only use the bandwidth on my device? Could someone please explain? I already read about it, but I'm still lost

[–] utopiah@lemmy.ml 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I've been running my PeerTube instance for more than a year now so hopefully I can help :

if you only watch, it doesn't use your device for storage, only some of your bandwidth if P2P is enabled. If you want to host content, e.g a video of yourself explaining how to design your own smart speaker using only FOSS, then you should setup a server which will need storage for your videos.

Happy to clarify more if you need. Overall you can watch content from https://video.benetou.fr and most likely all bandwidth will come from my server. You can not upload your videos there though (unless if I accept making an account for you, which I won't). There are other servers though, public ones, which allow registration and where you can thus upload your content too.

[–] penquin@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thank you. I just want to watch, no more no less and I'm ok with using my bandwidth to push the video around if that helps, since my ISP doesn't have that bullshit cap. And by bandwidth we are talking Internet, right?

[–] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

i am lighting the beacon

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