wow just wow while i can’t say i didn’t see this one coming but it always amazes me where greed could lead someone

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    1 year ago

    I’m pretty sure peertube is just a selfhosted version of YouTube that caches YT videos locally. Not an actual separate platform to upload videos to. I could be mistaken.

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      1 year ago

      Partially correct. You can self host peertube instances. What differentiates it from YouTube is:

      • Instances can share their video lists with other instances via ActivityPub. Even to Mastodon and Lemmy.
      • PeerTube video player is peer to peer. You can download the video from the server directly or from another peer watching the same video. This may be helpful for livestreams.
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      1 year ago

      Its a separate platform. It could be used to cache YT videos but that’s not its primary purpose.