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PeerTube is a tool for sharing online videos developed by Framasoft, a french non-profit.

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I just watched how PeerTube is intended to work (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 2 months ago by squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/peertube@lemmy.wtf

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Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.

Here are the stats

Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB

I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.

Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.

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[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Oh wow I did not realise peertube was like torrenting almost! That is so cool :)

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 16 points 2 months ago

Peer to peer, hence the name. :)

[–] grue@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Considering how often people try to retort "BuT WhAt aBoUt tHe bAnDwIdTh cOsTs" whenever it's mentioned as a YouTube alternative, it seems like almost nobody realizes that.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Because if it was hosted the same way lemmy is (with storage of posts across all servers once they federate) it would be a storage and bandwidth nightmare.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago

IIRC, they used some torrent codebase. It's like a closed tracker.