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What exactly does PeerTube solve? People want to comment and explore libraries of videos. This is just a protocol for independent video sharing platform instanc

What exactly does PeerTube solve? People want to comment and explore libraries of videos. This is just a protocol for independent video sharing platform instances, HTML5 supports video playback. A lot of the instances are poor quality, with flickering buttons. They outright look like the player ui’s that porn sites use…. Is there a way to explore content across all peer tube instances?

cowtools 4y ago
Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together. Here is a pretty good search engine: https://search.joinpeertube.org/ https://search.joinpeertube.org/ I usually try that if i'm trying to watch a video for free and I can't find it anywhere else. There are are servers that just re-upload documentaries and stuff.
- pipeline_peak 4y ago
  Ok great, I don’t like hoping across 1000 instances, feels messy and unsafe. Like mini 2006 YouTube’s everywhere lol
  - cowtools 4y ago
    You stay on the same site. It fetches the video for you from the other server. For example with this URL: https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY Kraut.zone is fetching this guy's vlog from his personal server. But you don't need to visit this random guy's site yourself or run any of his JS in your browser. But if you are really concerned about security you shouldn't even be using JS in the first place. "Le Walled Garden" is not an exception.
- powerhour 4y ago
  I searched for a common term, "Linux", and of the top 5 results only one worked -- the rest times out before any content (html and all) loaded. On the first page, of the two videos available only one began loading, however playback did not begin for the minute or so I waited. Bummer. This isn't a problem with the search engine, exactly, but it'd be useful if it filtered out unavailable content.
  - cowtools 4y ago
    Interesting. I am sorry to hear that. You may be better off going to a large instance that follows many other instances and search for videos there. For example, kraut.zone seems to index many other instances: https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=Linux https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-in... You can find well-connected instances here, if you sort by "Following": https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowing https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInst... You might also need to enable WebRTC. I know I usually leave it disabled for security reasons.
betwixthewires 4y ago
Sepia search, and federated timelines. I think a client that is able to subscribe to remote instances client side (without an AP account somewhere) would significantly improve the state of discover ability across peertube servers.
- cowtools 4y ago
  NewPipe supports this.
freedomben 4y ago
This also addresses the problem of bandwidth being super expensive and out of budget for small creators that want to self host. Users watching it are also uploading fragments, so if a video goes viral your AWS bill isn't gonna be $10,000 for bandwidth. It also gives some decentralization because the original source can go completely offline, yet as long as there is a copy of each fragment on somebody's machine, everyone can watch the whole thing.
- wmf 4y ago
  Never serve video from public cloud. AFAIK CDNs are not that expensive for video and combined with a spending limit I think self-hosting could be fine.

cowtools 4y ago

Yes, it is federated. You can search, like, make comments from one server to another so long as they are federated together. Here is a pretty good search engine: https://search.joinpeertube.org/ https://search.joinpeertube.org/ I usually try that if i'm trying to watch a video for free and I can't find it anywhere else. There are are servers that just re-upload documentaries and stuff.

pipeline_peak 4y ago
Ok great, I don’t like hoping across 1000 instances, feels messy and unsafe. Like mini 2006 YouTube’s everywhere lol
- cowtools 4y ago
  You stay on the same site. It fetches the video for you from the other server. For example with this URL: https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY https://kraut.zone/w/aWCVkSQTXKJ1yuR6o8zjDY Kraut.zone is fetching this guy's vlog from his personal server. But you don't need to visit this random guy's site yourself or run any of his JS in your browser. But if you are really concerned about security you shouldn't even be using JS in the first place. "Le Walled Garden" is not an exception.
powerhour 4y ago
I searched for a common term, "Linux", and of the top 5 results only one worked -- the rest times out before any content (html and all) loaded. On the first page, of the two videos available only one began loading, however playback did not begin for the minute or so I waited. Bummer. This isn't a problem with the search engine, exactly, but it'd be useful if it filtered out unavailable content.
- cowtools 4y ago
  Interesting. I am sorry to hear that. You may be better off going to a large instance that follows many other instances and search for videos there. For example, kraut.zone seems to index many other instances: https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-index&resultType=videos&search=Linux https://kraut.zone/search?sort=-views&searchTarget=search-in... You can find well-connected instances here, if you sort by "Following": https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInstanceFollowing https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances?sort=-totalInst... You might also need to enable WebRTC. I know I usually leave it disabled for security reasons.

betwixthewires 4y ago

Sepia search, and federated timelines. I think a client that is able to subscribe to remote instances client side (without an AP account somewhere) would significantly improve the state of discover ability across peertube servers.

cowtools 4y ago
NewPipe supports this.

freedomben 4y ago

This also addresses the problem of bandwidth being super expensive and out of budget for small creators that want to self host. Users watching it are also uploading fragments, so if a video goes viral your AWS bill isn't gonna be $10,000 for bandwidth. It also gives some decentralization because the original source can go completely offline, yet as long as there is a copy of each fragment on somebody's machine, everyone can watch the whole thing.

wmf 4y ago
Never serve video from public cloud. AFAIK CDNs are not that expensive for video and combined with a spending limit I think self-hosting could be fine.