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If a video is unpopular, can it just disappear like a torrent that loses seeders? Or is there some mechanism to incentivize peers to hold on to videos that get
by ziml77 5y ago
If a video is unpopular, can it just disappear like a torrent that loses seeders? Or is there some mechanism to incentivize peers to hold on to videos that get like one view a month?
- HidyBush 5y agoNo, if an instance publishes a video it means that it has to host it as a webseed. The torrent mechanism kicks in only when the video is being accessed by multiple people at the same time
- Animats 5y agoI've wondered about that. I put a video on PeerTube a few months ago.[1] It's a rendering test, of interest only to some people I'm working with. I'm curious to see how long it stays around and whether enough bandwidth is provided for streaming. So far, it's still up, despite very few views. [1] https://video.hardlimit.com/w/qBGD9LF8Ua3T7gLPCkE6vw https://video.hardlimit.com/w/qBGD9LF8Ua3T7gLPCkE6vw
- southerntofu 5y agoIt depends on the host's policy. In the peertube model, your server is responsible for hosting the video so unless it closes down there's no reason for it to be unavailable. This has interesting consequences because it means you should not trust a random service provider to host your videos, but rather find a dedicated community on a specific topic, or an existing network (such as a local non-profit host) which is sustainable. There is currently no incentives for seeding and that's a good thing. Seeding (replication) is achieved as a community-to-community service between consenting sysadmins/communities. So if people from kolektiva.media find conf.tube content/concept interesting, the admins can setup say 1TB (or unlimited quota) of replicated content from conf.tube, and both sources will be listed as webseeds when you watch the video on either instance.