• Undearius@lemmy.ca
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    does anyone have any good alternatives to Youtube on the Fediverse?

    Peertube would be the most popular. It works the same as Lemmy that there isn’t just one single server/instance that hosts all the videos. A popular one is tilvids.com but there are others

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      I’m unique in this, but I firmly believe video creators should just make torrents, and post links to them from whatever site / forum they choose.

      Torrents have already solved the big static data problem, we only need a place (like here), where people can post links.

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        I was just thinking about this. The content creators already have the original quality copy stored on their machines.

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        I believe Peertube has support for webtorrent streaming so viewers upload the video to other viewers as well.

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          Ya, but unfortunately only a tiny minority of seeders use webtorrents, and peertube still has to store every video locally. Because of that, peertube instances find that they can’t last long, because of the huge disk space required.

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      tilvids doesn’t federate for some reason, it’s annoying, they have the best vids. it’s like they want to force people to use their site

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        Hmm, that is annoying. Hopefully it’s not deliberate.

        I only saw a link to that peertube instance earlier and had a tricky time discovering other instances. Although, I admittedly didn’t spend too long trying.