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You are missing an important link here, peertube does P2P ON DEMAND. You "CAN" disable it and you are out of the p2p scene. Dont know why people here seem to eq
by 2Gkashmiri 6y ago
You are missing an important link here, peertube does P2P ON DEMAND. You "CAN" disable it and you are out of the p2p scene. Dont know why people here seem to equate peertube=p2p=insecure.
- simias 6y agoI don't equate p2p with insecure but what's the point of turning it off? If you do that aren't you better off just hosting some basic HTML/CSS/JS to serve your videos directly from your self-hosted website without bothering with PeerTube? Maybe I'm missing the point but I though the advantage of PeerTube was using P2P file sharing to cut down on the huge amount of bandwidth necessary for video streaming.
- antepodius 6y agoYou can disable it client-side if you, the viewer, don't want your ip visible to the peers. As it's opt-out, most people won't do it, so the host can still reap the benefit of the p2p system. Aside from that, another goal of peertube is the ability to federate instances together so that a search on one site can return results from all federated ones. The hope is to build a decentralised, federated youtube competitor.