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How to use peertube (lemmy.zip)

submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by confuser@lemmy.zip to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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id like to make the comment section into a list of ways to use peertube. i know there is grayjay, going to the peertube instance website of your choice, and the peertube app which if i recall isnt completed yet but is expected to be done sometime soon but correct me if im wrong, im sure there are other apps people use for peertube but maybe not, i havent actually looked. As well as how does everyone interact with peertube? Is it mostly following specifically people or more like other fediverse platforms where you just make an account somewhere on a instance you deem worthy and check out the whole peertube userbase, I know each instance is like a whole YouTube website, does that mean that you have to search based on instances to find things or can you search like all vs local or whatever?

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[–] linearchaos@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago

It works a lot like Lemmy. Everything's federated, you get to see your local traffic and what the local people on your note are following.

The problem is, peertube is resource intensive. To get the torrent style benefits, you need multiple people watching a given video at the same time.

If you click a link and you're the only person watching it You've got to wait for that one person's hosted instance to stream you the data which is not necessarily performant.

Lacking options for monetization, and poor performance on less reviewed media are stumbling blocks keeping it from going more mainstream. YouTube is also starting to block people from trying to sync to it which will be another problem.

I suspect once YouTube gets its ad blocker blocking sorted out you might see a resurgence in peer tube as people repost popular YouTube videos around the net without ads.

It's also kind of a pain in the ass to stand one up from scratch. I scrapped one together in a VM the other day while I was at work, I gave it self-contained redis and postgres and when it got up to the final install step it demanded that I have the URL already lined up and working and you're not allowed to change the URL after just really disappointing honestly.