https://www.geeksmint.com/youtube-alternatives/

With youtube blocking adblockers, maybe it’s time to look into alternatives and start migrating videos there as well. Any viable Fediverse alternatives that’s mature enough to contend with youtube?

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[–] nuzzlerat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I need to know how they are handling the server costs involved… even if you host your own instance for just your own uploads, you are still going to be paying a lot whenever people are watching those videos, no?

Video is a way different ballgame than regular social media imo

[–] dedale@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
I don't know how well it works, since there's never enough people around to see it in action.

[–] Timwi@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?

[–] dedale@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I have absolutely no idea, you could try asking the devs or look into webtorrent.

[–] nuzzlerat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I had a feeling they might. It’s likely the only way to make it possible but it is not without faults either.

Thanks for the info, I’ll look into it more!