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Hey. It's really neat. Would you be willing to share any insight you have? I don't know much about PeerTube. I assume your server is along the lines of an a

by ryan29 6y ago

Hey. It's really neat. Would you be willing to share any insight you have? I don't know much about PeerTube. I assume your server is along the lines of an anchor / primary peer that guarantees there's always 1 seed. Is that right? If so, is there a way to turn off the peer-to-peer capabilities and to use it like a more traditional video hosting platform? > It makes more sense for someone just starting out to host their own content, than a creator who is entrenched in the YouTube world. I've thought about that concept for (literally) at least 2 years and I've always wanted to build a how-to website that helps creators do what they can to mitigate the risks of being de-platformed, etc.. Have you thought at all about ways to use YouTube to externalize costs initially, but with a plan to eventually migrate premium users to a platform where you'd get a better business relationship? I think Linus Tech Tips has the right idea with FloatPlane where they cater to creators that are already popular and help them syphon those creators' premium users away from YouTube. Do you think there's any way a completely new creator could start out with extremely low ongoing costs? ~€60 a month is too expensive for high school kids and I think that's about the only age where you'd (possibly) have a chance to start capturing the market in terms of mindshare. Even by then, it might be too late. A lot of really young kids have YouTube channels and are already captured by Google. By the time they're in high school they've already got a half decade of "investment" into YouTube. Any thoughts on that?

djsumdog 6y ago
I'm not sure if you can turn off the P2P aspect. You'll have to check the PeerTube documentation. When you connect to a PeerTube server, you start streaming from that server, but host to other viewers from your browser using WebTorrent and WebRTC relays to get past NAT. Alex Gleeson is working on affordable paid hosting for Pleroma+Soapbox (and ActivityPub platform like PeerTube, except for twitter/fb style text posts). Maybe that can be applied to PeerTube as well? I'm sure someone must be working on lower cost hosted PeerTube somewhere.. For say the high school student, a little bit of coding knowledge can be used to automate video uploads and metadata. That student can use a public PeerTube server, or one of the paid ones, and if you have uploads scripted in place, it makes it easy to move/re-host that content. For revenue, once you get large enough, there may be ways to build integrations between a PeerTube server and Patreon, Librepay or other such platforms.

by ryan29 6y ago

djsumdog 6y ago

I'm not sure if you can turn off the P2P aspect. You'll have to check the PeerTube documentation. When you connect to a PeerTube server, you start streaming from that server, but host to other viewers from your browser using WebTorrent and WebRTC relays to get past NAT. Alex Gleeson is working on affordable paid hosting for Pleroma+Soapbox (and ActivityPub platform like PeerTube, except for twitter/fb style text posts). Maybe that can be applied to PeerTube as well? I'm sure someone must be working on lower cost hosted PeerTube somewhere.. For say the high school student, a little bit of coding knowledge can be used to automate video uploads and metadata. That student can use a public PeerTube server, or one of the paid ones, and if you have uploads scripted in place, it makes it easy to move/re-host that content. For revenue, once you get large enough, there may be ways to build integrations between a PeerTube server and Patreon, Librepay or other such platforms.