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"A minimalist and efficient peer-to-peer live stream The great feature of this v3 is live streaming, and we are proud to say that it works very well ! ... Th
by spzx 6y ago
"A minimalist and efficient peer-to-peer live stream
The great feature of this v3 is live streaming, and we are proud to say that it works very well !
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The main points to remember :
The lag (between video maker and audience) varies between 30 seconds and 1mn, as expected ;
Depending on the power of the server and its load (number of simultaneous live shows, transcoding, etc.), PeerTube can provide hundreds of simultaneous views (but we’re not sure that it will scale to thousands… at least not yet !) ;
Administration options are included for people hosting the instance ;
The features are minimalist by design, and we have documented our recommendations for creating a live ;
The live can be done with most video streaming tool (we recommend the free-libre software OBS), with two options :
An « short-lived » live, with a unique identifier, will offer the possibility to save the video and display a replay on the same link ;
A « permanent » live stream, which will work more like a Twitch channel, but without the replay option."
- geoah 6y agoCongrats on a major update! Peertube is something I’ve been trying again and again from time to time. My main issue is finding instances to follow that are properly moderated. A lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos. I’m hoping that once peertube provides ways for users to sponsor/subscribe-to creators’ peertube channels that more will either jump ship from youtube or at least publish in both platforms.
- remram 6y agoA problem here is that the default configuration automatically follow back any instance that follows it, making all their content appear on its frontpage. I think that is a pretty unsafe default.
- lokedhs 6y agoDidn't that default change recently? I installed Peertube a couple of months ago, and I'm pretty sure that option was off by default (and I never changed it).
- remram 6y agoIt might have! I installed a while ago. I didn't find a fast way to un-follow all those automatically-followed instances though.
- pjc50 6y ago> lot of the suggested instances are filled with stolen content, porn, or just very wtf videos. The service that competes with youtube but is less convenient will necessarily be full of content banned from youtube.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYeah, though as we can see from experience of Gab being the biggest Mastodon instance and Mastodon not having collapsed, it's possible to have an alternative without it necessarily becoming a "witch town".
- M2Ys4U 6y agoI'd take the claim that Gab was "the biggest Mastodon instance" with a pinch of salt, to be honest. Plus, they were immediately and almost universally banned by other instances in the fediverse
- BlueTemplar 6y agoYes, while technically true, it's only due to the way that they arrived vs the way the rest of the Mastodon federation grew.
- rewq4321 6y agoGab broke/removed the code for federation several months ago, so they're no longer part of the fediverse. See my reply to your GP for more details.
- rewq4321 6y agoGab left the fediverse quite a while ago now: https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_still_part_of_mastadon/g2g5ghs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_still_part_of_mastadon/g3k2q7n/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Mastodon/comments/ie49qp/is_gab_sti... I don't think they ever really cared about decentralisation/federation. Seems they just wanted a nice codebase to work from.