Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
by phkahler on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:18PM
(#28589196)
Use your unused upstream bandwidth. Like bit torrent for video.
So why not just make the video available on torrent?
It's even possible to streamline the experience for torrents like how Popcorntime has done. Users don't need to even be technical enough to understand what torrents are - the same way users don't need to understand tcp/ip to visit a website.
Re:Bye YouTube, Hello PeerTube [video]
by southerntofu on Monday September 20, 2021 @06:44AM
(#28592274)
Bittorrent protocol is not supported in browsers. Peertube uses Webtorrent, which is a WebRTC port of the Bittorrent protocol. Those two networks are incompatible but the magnet hashes are the same and there is progress in desktop clients implementing Webtorrent peering.
You can try to think of Peertube as Popcorn Time with user following and channels and comments... and interop with the rest of the Fediverse.
that's still "generating revenue". maybe not profit, but servers and bandwidth cost non-trivial amounts of money and somebody has to pay for that. whether it's donations, or user-fees, or ads, or private benefactors, the revenue has to come from somewhere. but if a video service has no answer as to how it can sustain itself, it's questionable whether it's worth the effort of developing it or developing your audience on it.