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Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Doing my own research before asking here, I understand that PeerTube works similar but not the same as torrent protocol works and it seems to me that it uses the WebTorrent protocol, that means that I "share" fragments of the video I watch, and that the server although not behaving as a peer, provides the information to other servers.

Sincerely, even doing this research, I had many questions...

  • What happens if a video has no peers? Is it simply unplayable?

  • If a video has few peers, will only a part of it be playable?

  • To share fragments of a video I need to be consciously in the video? I mean, in a torrent program I open it in the background and forget about it, but in the case of PeerTube there is no desktop program as such to share in the background the videos I have already watched.

  • If I as a user share a video, and after a while I turn off my PC and I was the only one who saw it, no one else will be able to play the video until I turn on the PC?

  • This will sound stupid, but why do servers have a storage limit per user if the server as such does not share fragments of it?

Thanks and apologies for the stupid questions.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

As said above, but shorter: the videos are stored on the servers like on a "regular" video hosting website. If there are peers available, then it relies on P2P for whatever's working; if not, it acts like a regular video website.

To share fragments of a video I need to be consciously in the video?

I actually have no idea about this one!