Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube?

Posted by geongeorgek on Thursday July 18, 2019 @10:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I know there are DTube and Lbry. but those are neither fully decentralized nor provide enough performance.

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Re:Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube? by beatgammit on Friday July 19, 2019 @10:00AM (#20478699)

Well, there's PeerTube, which is federated. I guess it's not decentralized, but there's no single central server, so it probably meets your requirements.

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Re:Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube? by connorcodes on Saturday July 20, 2019 @06:34PM (#20488754)

PeerTube is also special because it uses the activityPub format, so anyone on Mastodon or GNUsocial can follow somebody on PeerTube.

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Re:Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube? by d--b on Friday July 19, 2019 @02:54AM (#20476675)

Popcorntime in a way was a decentralized video service.

Performance would degrade for less popular videos.

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Re:Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube? by meditations on Sunday July 21, 2019 @01:40PM (#20492530)

It can be solved. For example: assign peers for videos with lower number of peers instead of assigning peers for currently watching video. Please correct me, if I’m wrong.

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