TankieTube is out of "beta" and everyone's invited!
OpSec
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Email - Make sure to register using an email detached from your legal identity (remember Stonetoss?).
An email address is required to register, however, I've disabled the verification requirement. This means you can register using something like cum@fart.com and it will totally work—unless the address is already taken (in which case you should stop being a hack). You would need a real address, of course, to have the option of resetting your password.
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P2P - The peer-to-peer feature allows the software to scale tremendously well when serving the same viral video to many people at the same time (supposedly at least 1000 concurrent viewers, easily, with a wimpier server than ours).
A downside of the feature is that it can reveal your IP to a subset of people watching the same video at the same time as you. [Read more]. Therefore, it is recommended to either:
- Use a VPN. Or,
- Deselect the P2P participation feature in the user settings menu.
I'll do my part on the server end of security. I've anonymized IP addresses in the peertube and nginx logs. Also, a kind, certified security expert contacted me by email and offered me a FREE assessment of my private keys and he said they meet "top standards"!
History & Goals
I started out with a $15/mo VPS (run by Nazis, as it turned out) and have migrated/upgraded the server twice since then. It's now using the most powerful dedicated server available from Freakhosting at ~$230/mo💰🥴, because I wanted it to not suck. It has a Ryzen 9 7950x3D, which is ~32 times as fast as the first server. It still doesn't have the transcoding throughput to keep up with YT syncing without creating a double-digit hour backlog.
The transcoding power can be boosted by renting additional servers for use as remote runners. It all depends on the amount of support the project can get...
Donation Link 🥺👉👈
About the Outro
The music is La Danse Des Bombes, a great song about the ecstasy of armed combat in defense of the Paris Commune of 1871 which I discovered thanks to comrade exotiquematter@tankie.tube. PeerTube is French software, so I think that's neat.
The sound effects are sampled from a video of the Al-Qassam Brigade resistance fighters in live armed combat against Israeli occupation forces. The sound effects correspond to a :hamas-red-triangle: scene in the video.
Underneath it all is this beat by "K1 The Producer".
Fifty Channels!
The major difference from YouTube (YT) is that TankieTube (TT) users can create up to fifty (50) channels (the default is 20 but I bumped it up). Channels are analogous to Lemmy communities, except that PeerTube (PT) doesn't yet support shared channels with more than one author/user.
I'll eventually create a style guide. If you want to sync or archive a YT channel, then I'd prefer that you create a unique TT channel that corresponds to it for better organization.
PT has an automatic channel syncing feature, but I have it turned off right now because it was overloading the transcoding queue.