Me 6 months ago: hmmm PeerTube looks really interesting but I don’t understand how I can use it.
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Me 6 months ago: hmmm PeerTube looks really interesting but I don’t understand how I can use it. Do I have to create a new account? Pick an instance? But which one? Nah, too complicated, I’ll check back some other time.
Me today: oh YunoHost has PeerTube in its list of apps. Maybe I’ll host my own single-user instance!
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Bandwidth is the killer.
I would like #peertube to succeed...
But I don't know how that is possible.My community TV station (c44.com.au) run a "streaming" service for a few years, and we have tried a few hosting sites..
...every time what killed us was bandwidth costs. Any remotely successful programs blew the cap for the month.
I don't see how you can avoid that.
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You avoid it by having the content seeded by many people across the world, sharing the bandwidth load.
The trouble is that currently, Peertube isn't pushing automated seeding much, and so the bandwidth load is only shared slightly. We need more "always connected" nodes.
What would really help would be desktop Peertube apps that let people easily share in seeding content they like, such as by automatically seeding anything they "Thumbs up".
