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A comment on Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube?.

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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