PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, we can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-profit popular educational association, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

If you want to follow the PeerTube project:

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[–] 27 points 8 months ago (7 children)

I gotta admit, PeerTube is really beginning to stabilize into a platform I'd consider using. Imma have to take another look when I have to time.

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  • [–] 25 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    My biggest issue isn't the platform. My biggest issue is that 99% of the content is Veronica explaining linux.

    Can we....uh......get some OTHER content?

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  • [–] 8 points 8 months ago

    That's been a problem with the platform for a couple years. It goes something like this: Video hosting is expensive, and moderating video is complicated. So most instances don't allow open registration and posting.

    When you have a video platform without anyone allowed to post videos... Well, it's not gonna be good.

    The only videos that could get posted were from people with an established audience on another platform like YouTube, or else someone passionate enough to run their own server (which requires lots of time, money, and technical know-how).

    For a creator who already has an audience, there is absolutely no incentive to jump to federation. It's more effort for a smaller audience on a less reliable platform. So of course it's all Veronica explains Linux because that is the only kind of creator who would have an ideological interest of doing it despite the disincentives.

    Or else it's not a knowledgeable and capable creator, but someone with just a lot of time, money, and passion. Do you read a lot of self-published books? Not too many Pulitzers in there. There is a reason you can count on one hand the number of self produced films that are actually good.

    Creativity requires openness and freedom. Peertube has been (ironically) one of the most closed video platforms on the internet. For new creators, it's been impossible to get on and just experiment. That means no innovation, which translates to no good content.

    From a cursory look, that seems to be changing. There are now a few instances like that appear to be stable and have open, moderated registration. If that continues, we will begin to see more variety of quality content.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    I've been uploading Deus Ex Randomizer videos, but I don't get a lot of views lol

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Curious... Can you share more details about what they changed that fixes federation with Lemmy?

    Maybe it'll help Piefed and NodeBB too!

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Currently streaming on peertube here:

    https://lemmy.world/post/44221429?scrollToComments=true

    Major storm event on Oahu!

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    yeah thats my freind who asked me to stream's channel.

    I'm here: https://makertube.net/w/njyyaTmh7cdsR14qarMT4G

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    401.You are not authorized here. You might need to login to see the resource.

    Is it supposed to do that? Never seen peertube ask me for an account login before, while telling me I'm unauthorized. Unclear if glitch, or requirement for live streams on peertube.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Love Peertube.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    Active users and number of servers also recently reach all time high.

    If you want to learn how to create a good open source project for the fediverse. i think peertube is the best role model for that.

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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Awesome! Especially this part:

    Add compatibility with ActivityPub FEP-1b12 (used by Lemmy, PieFed, Mbin...)

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  • [–] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This will be a huge lift for content discovery. I love the idea of PeerTube, but still struggle with discovery and subscriptions. As the links and videos are populated through communities, it will help!

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    doesn't PeerTube have voluntary federation amongst instances ? and most have that turned off ? , so finding videos on other instances from an instance you are on can be impossible ? or do i misunderstand how it works ?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Not exactly. Most PeerTube instances does not follow a lot of other PeerTube instances. This however doesn't prevent other instances from following said PeerTube instance. You can follow any channel on a PeerTube instance from any other Fediverse application.

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