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You can self-host and un-federate PeerTube, such that the user isn't even aware they're on a PeerTube instance. If I had a website where I'd host my videos as

• eropple 4y ago
  Ehh. You totally can, but at that point you're still stuck with a pretty bad model of shipping video in the first place, namely relying on having peers and dealing with PeerTube's bad failure modes when peers leave the swarm. I am not a fan--the sibling comment about those failure modes tracks with my own experiences, and I think it's scary enough to avoid. If the choice is "mediocre to okay perf based on geography, consistently" or "mediocre to okay perf, mostly based on geography, with very bad performance for some users in ways that cannot be reliably predicted", it would be pretty bad to recommend the latter for most use cases. I tend to think that, since you're already foregoing discoverability by not federating with other PeerTube instances, you might as well also just build your bootleg CDN off of Hetzner nodes or whatever and have points of presence in places you care about. It's not that expensive and it's likely to be more consistent in perf. (You could say "well, run PeerTube and register your pops as peers", but other peers falling out of the swarm is the problem, not your own.) I just don't really see a point to doing so as a small/individual creator or as a brand/channel.