Is there a fediverse alternative for YouTube? If not, why? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by weird_nugget@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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[-] sam@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

PeerTube! Check out TILvids for a good example.

[-] fubo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

https://instances.joinpeertube.org/instances

[-] weird_nugget@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Peer to peer seems like a good idea to cope with the ridiculous amount of data used for videos. Hopefully this gets more popular over time!

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

It's not peer to peer though. It's similar to Lemmy and Mastodon where someone hosts an instance and serves video from that. Except with video it gets very expensive, so I don't think server admins want to see a migration happen.

A peer to peer solution would actually be cheaper for everyone involved.

[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Does it have a payment model built into it?

Seems like infrastructure cost is a central problem of video hosting, so features to distribute that cost load among users would be must-have for any video service not bankrolled by a huge corp.

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