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Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by M2Ys4U on Sunday September 19, 2021 @07:39PM (#28588967)
>It's not P2P, it's federated.

It's both. PeerTube instances federate with each other, but the video player uses P2P to spread the load between viewers.

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Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by older on Monday September 20, 2021 @04:15AM (#28591381)
Some of the instances choose not to federate with others. For example https://tilvids.com/ Here they explain why: https://mstdn.social/@tilvids/106902477087882284
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Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video] by evilclats on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:32AM (#28593108)
I'm not sure webtorrent have a way to do peer exchange without centralised trackers like e.g Bittorrents PEX does, so if the core websocket trackers go down, are peers still able to share lists of known peers with each other or is the peer discovery centralised to the webtorrent/websocket trackers?
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