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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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) 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 (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) 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 (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) 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 (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) 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 (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) 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 (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

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

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    * Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute/getting-started)

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

You can find this option in "My Settings", in the left menu.

"Help share videos being played"

Hi!

Concerning WebTorrent, this techno was not used as a default since a long time. It's bound to how it was hard to implement Live Streaming with it (available since v3).

Hi!

There is a page on official documentation (docs.joinpeertube.org) (which needs to be updated to reflect the removal of WebTorrent but is still relevant on hls parts).

Here is the one concerning us:

" - If using the HLS player (depending on the admin transcoding configuration):

    - The player loads the HLS playlist using hls.js from the origin server
    
    - PeerTube provides a custom loader to hls.js that downloads segments from HTTP but also from P2P via WebRTC
    
    - Segments are loaded by HTTP from the origin server + servers that mirrored the video and by WebRTC from other web browsers that are watching the video. They are used by hls.js to stream them into the <video> HTML element"

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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 P2P and WebTorrent 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 instances 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, I 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 an instance available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

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

    report bugs and give your feedback on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38)

    submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate)

    Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube. (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)

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 P2P and WebTorrent 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 instances 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, I 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 an instance available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

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

    report bugs and give your feedback on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38)

    submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate)

    Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube. (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)

You can also use https://sepiasearch.org/ to find content across most instances.

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 WebTorrent 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, WebTorrents and related 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 instances 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, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try tu use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find an instance available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, 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!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.

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

    report bugs and give your feedback on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38)

    submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

    Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started?id=translate)

    Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube. (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)

Hi!

Thanks for sharing your concerns!

PeerTube is not concerned by these effects since we're using Websockets and WebRTC to handle the connection with the tracker and P2P.

PeerTube is a Free/Libre and federated alternative to YouTube.

PeerTube is not a platform, it's a software. As it is free-libre, anybody can copy and install it on their server. PeerTube allows the server admin to create their own video hosting & live-streams platform (an "instance"), and to synchronize it with other PeerTube instances.

It doesn't aim to replace YouTube or Twitch, but to offer a viable alternative, especially to those who don't fit in Google's or Amazon's (and any surveillance capitalism companies) model.

Technically, PeerTube uses the ActivityPub protocol so users, videos, channels, comments, etc. become part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe also used by Mastodon, the federated alternative to Twitter). PeerTube adds peer-to-peer broadcasting to good old streaming, via WebTorrents and related technologies. It makes a PeerTube server more efficient when a video or a live is getting success and lots of simultaneous views.

Those technical choices (Free-Libre Licence, ActivityPub Federation, Peer-to-Peer broadcasting) democratize video-broadcasting : now, you don't need a tech giant's money to host videos, just to take part in a vast federation of small servers that synchronize their video catalog together.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) to learn more about the project. Then if you want to try PeerTube as a content creator, you can find an available instance there to register on, or take the plunge and host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

PeerTube development is maintained and funded by Framasoft (https://framasoft.org/), a French non-for-profit popular educational organization. Framasoft is a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible. They try to make it real trough community-driven actions both online and offline.

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events & Groups.

Even though there is only one (not even full time) paid developer on the project, the development of PeerTube is really active and you can help to contribute through different manners:

* Try it and give your feedback and/or report bugs you found on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on Framasoft's forum (https://framacolibri.org/).

* Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started).

* Make a donation to help fund PeerTube's development. More informations about how the money will be spent can be found here (https://framasoft.org/en/#support)

* Help to develop the software on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) and Framagit (https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/PeerTube) (a self-hosted instance of Gitlab).

The people behind PeerTube are the non-for-profit Framasoft.

Actually, there is only one developer, not even working full time, on the project, and some lovely contributors.

So Framasoft is actually not playing with same means than big players like YouTube or so. That's why they are not handling the problem the same way.

The goal here is mainly to build a tool for people and small structures. There is no intent to be the new YouTube.

The message is more humble: anyone should be able to host and share at low cost their own videos. That's the issue that PeerTube solves right now.

If you think all of that sounds good, think about donating to Framasoft. They are living mostly from donations and that's what made PeerTube possible.

https://framasoft.org/en/#support

Actually, the experience is really fluid for most people. There can be some edgecases where we have users reporting huge bufferings but that's rare and hard to diagnostic since often bound to the client.

Before the V3, we tried the live with more than 150people watching at the same time with some friends. 1/5 of the bandwidth was served by the server, P2P handled the rest.

Since then, things continued to improve and the goal of Framasoft (from which I am external, so ask directly to Framasoft if you have specific question) is to provide the most stable experience with PeerTube.

You can find out our feedback (in french, though), on Framasoft forums: https://framacolibri.org/t/fonctionnalite-live-retour-dutili...

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Hackers have protected users since years. It's time for politicians to protect their citizens.