• Undearius
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Dessalines
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      111 year ago

      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.

        • Dessalines
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          31 year ago

          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.

      • Undearius
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        31 year ago

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

        • Dessalines
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          21 year ago

          Yep, and they could share those high res versions too.

    • down daemon
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      91 year ago

      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

      • Undearius
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        21 year ago

        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.