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How is this similar or different from LBRY / Odysee?

• orblivion 5y ago
  I don't think there's a blockchain or currency involved with Peertube. It's more like Mastodon for videos. In fact, you can follow Peertube accounts and comment on Peertube videos using your Mastodon account.
• DoItToMe81 5y ago
  There's no blockchain involved or cryptocurrency, you do not need to pay to make a transaction, votes are one-user-one-vote rather than weighted by ownership of the currency, it is easily capable of federating with non-Peertube services due to Activitypub. LBRY uses IPFS to achieve P2P data transfer, while Peertube uses webtorrent or HLS, with a preference towards the latter. Peertube also seems easier to set up, at least to me.
  • orblivion 5y ago
    The IPFS on LBRY also means that the videos themselves don't have a "home" on one particular server. It's more like torrenting files. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I assume that if you take down a server holding a peertube video, it's not as though clients who have seen the video (or even federated servers?) would continue serving that video. The P2P aspect is merely a bandwidth saving scheme when clients are playing the video?
    • DoItToMe81 5y ago
      Another server has to set up a video redundancy for the clip for that to happen. Otherwise, yeah, it just goes poof. Avoiding this is one of the major benefits of IPFS.
      • orblivion 5y ago
        It's cool that redundancy is a built-in feature at least.