First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.

I've been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won't be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃

I've been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:

PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.

The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.

Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that's not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.

The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.

Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.

Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.

Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.

A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.

FAQ

.wtf?

Yea, it stands for "What The Fediverse". What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?

Where is the server hosted?

It's hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.

What's your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:

AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores

16GB of RAM

nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)

2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS

2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage

4TB of storage ain't much

That's true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.

Why no 4K??

4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don't have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.

I've probably forgotten something, but yea.. Enjoy.

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[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me: "Oh no, that wtf means it's gonna be a LiveLeak site isn't it?"

platform for general use

Me: "Ah, so maybe not so bad then."

Every topic is welcome.

Me: "... and yet..."

Seriously though, I'm all for the Fediverse in all its many forms, and without people like you it wouldn't exist. Thank you.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I should maybe have added an asterisk to that "Every topic is welcome" 😅

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

That would be wise.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you enabled the XMPP based live-stream chat addon?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you can see all the plugins enabled.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Cool. Can you configure it so that one can easily connect with an external Matterbridge to it?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 5 points 1 year ago

I’ll look into it.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

for general use

So every third video is going to be a beheading or medical gore?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just means the server doesn’t have a general theme or topic. No gore.

Does the gTLD make you think otherwise? 😅

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lol

Usually when a server allows anything, it collects the things other systems block.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"general use" =/= "allows everything"

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[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

I checked and it doesn't seem to be

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is great news.

Are the videos that were at https://peertube.wtf/c/startgametrailers lost forever? It's no big deal, but I'll delete 'em from https://piefed.social/c/startgametrailers@peertube.wtf if they are. Thanks.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago

I've recreated the channel, but all the videos from before is sadly lost.

[–] hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity: What kind of decentralized storage has been used before?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used Sia. It works okay, just not for video :D

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I love the concept of decentralized storage and look into a bunch of em all the time yet I've never stumbled upon Sia.

What made it shite for video?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago

It was a hit and miss if the video would actually load and running the Sia software took a lot more system resources that I would care for.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 year ago

I have been considering to use this: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/connect/apps/#peertube

Might make it easier to use an external server as a kind of CDN as well.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What kind of upload bandwidth do you have?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1000/1000 Mbps fiber.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would be nice if you could share sometime in the future how bandwidth heavy Peertube is for your setup.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

I’ll let you know 😄

[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 year ago

Great!

[–] fxomt@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey, you're back! i thought .wtf was long gone :)

Thanks for running this great instance, its the best instance imo. i missed it :D

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 points 1 year ago

Thanks ❤️

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Your experience with the hardware transcoding would be interesting to share.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I already had some experience using the P600 with Plex.

It’s essentially just installing the nVidia drivers, install the HW transcoding plugin for PeerTube and then select the nvenc transcoder in the settings.

There’s some extra steps if using Docker or a VM.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ah, right. Nvidia.

I am kinda thinking about using Peertube with an Intel Quicksync capable CPU, which seems to be a bit more complicated.

[–] curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about it is more complicated? The experience with qsv has always been easier IMO for anything transcode, and I (maybe mistakenly) thought it used ffmpeg for that under the hood?

FWIW, qsv does all my Jellyfin transcoding like an absolute champ, which is why I'm surprised and curious.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 year ago

I am still looking into it but it seems like the Peertube hardware transcoding extension does not support Quicksync by default and you need to use some fork or so.

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[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Quick question: do you know if multiple hardware accelerators can be used in parallel? Like a Intel Quicksync and a Nvidia card, or two Nvidia cards etc?

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[–] dyrfront@lemmy.wtf 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

peertube.wtf has been down for a few days now. is it expected to go up again?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yes. An update to the latest version borked it somehow. Working on a solution.

[–] klu9@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

Good to hear. Best of luck and thanks for all the great work!

[–] dyrfront@lemmy.wtf 3 points 2 weeks ago

how annoying. thank you for trying to fix!

[–] maam@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

Thank you for examining the issue!

[–] pebbles@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hope fixing everything goes well! Thanks so much for hosting and maintaining peertube.wft!! I really appreciate being able to post my videos there.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How will you monetize?

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By working at my day job.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound self sustaining, but thanks for replying

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Monetization does not align with the principles of the Fediverse imho. Donations can help, but I don't believe that's sustainable either. I can do this because I have the time and the money. I wouldn't recommend doing this, if you had to rely on donations or monetization.

[–] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

I would think many servers that accept donations don't rely on them. But taking donations while it is optional can stave off the time when donations would be necessary.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Monetization isnt inherently bad. Even ads can be dome in a way that does not violate user's privacy

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[–] confuser@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't seem to be able to login, it tells me my password and username/email is incorrect.

Do we have to make a new account because the server is new or am I just running into some kind of error?

Also where can we best see updates about this peertube instance is here on Lemmy good or will they be through peertube or is there not really any solid plans for this yet?

I really appreciate the work going into this it seems like peertube.wtf has the goals in mind that I want out of a YouTube alternative!

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 3 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately you have to register your account again.

I’ll probably post here on Lemmy, but also via the broadcast function in PeerTube.

Possibly also a Mastodon account at some point.

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