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PeerTube

A free, decentralized and federated video platform that allows peer-to-peer video streaming. Supports interoperability via ActivityPub, customizable user interface, video embedding, and follows channels from across the Fediverse without data mining or ads.

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Cost / License

  • Free
  • Open Source

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Self-Hosted
  • F-Droid
  • Cloudron
4.4
Very Good39 reviews
519likes
26comments

Features

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Properties

  1.  Free Speech
  2.  Privacy focused
  3.  Support for Themes

Features

  1.  Live Streaming
  2.  Decentralized
  3.  Video Hosting
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Peer-To-Peer
  6.  Share Videos
  7.  Federated
  8. ActivityPub icon  Support for ActivityPub
  9.  GNU/linux-libre
  10.  Dark Mode
  11.  Fediverse
  12.  Support for HD videos
  13.  Support for WebTorrent
  14.  HTTPS Support
  15.  Comment section
  16.  No Tracking
  17.  Support for 4K
  18.  Federated Cloud
  19.  Support for SD videos
  20.  No registration required
  21.  AirPlay Support
  22.  Two-factor Authentication
  23.  Multi-streaming
  24.  Personalized Recommendations
  25.  Picture in Picture
  26.  Kids Mode
  27.  Chromecast Support

 Tags

  • videos

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Comments and Reviews

   
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Comment summary: PeerTube is praised for its decentralized, federated model and P2P technologies that allow freedom of expression and a diverse range of content. Many appreciate its open-source nature and absence of mandatory ads. However, there are concerns about its popularity potential, usability challenges due to required JS packages, and moderation issues leading to problematic content. While some cite its scalability and privacy features, others are wary of decentralization risks.
Top Positive Comment
whjms
11

Pros:

  • P2P streaming allows for slower networks for server operators
  • federation allows combining media from multiple servers

Cons:

  • installation requires thousands of JS packages to be installed
aporritt95
1

i love open source and it better then youtube

Review by a new / low-activity user.
Juri
1

Has nice UI and good performance. I love to use it

beaver73728
1

needs a better search engine honestly. i can never find right videos with the current one (sepiasearch).

m_lemmi
2

I found incredibly complicated to use. Even worse than odysee. Tried from official website and it is not intuitive. I found link for google store in here but not in their page, i had impression this website was designed back to 1990, functional but many scrolls to see 5 thumbnails videos. And when i searched some keywords, sometimes i got zero results. “Moon” has very few videos fr example.

RemovedUser
0

The federation model means sites can share videos with each other. And there's some good content that doesn't seek to "game the algorithm" like on youtube. But you have to be careful which sites you use because some of them definitely have some harmful stuff. (Youtube has harmful stuff too but I think people are more forgiving about it on yt because of the algorithm). It also sucks that you can't use noscript with it because peertube uses javascript.

Review by a new / low-activity user.
K0RR
5

The only federated youtube alternative. Having support for activitypub in a video hosting platform is a great idea

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What is PeerTube?

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. But one organization hosting PeerTube alone may not have enough money to pay for bandwidth and video storage of its servers, all servers of PeerTube are interoperable as a federated network, and non-PeerTube servers can be part of the larger Vidiverse (federated video network) by talking our implementation of ActivityPub. Video load is reduced thanks to P2P (BitTorrent) in the web browser via WebTorrent.

Video streaming Just upload your videos, and be sure they will stream anywhere. Add a description, some tags and your video will be discoverable by the entire video fediverse, not just your instance. You can even embed a player on your favorite website!

Keep in touch with video creators Follow your favorite channels from PeerTube or really any other place. No need to have an account on the instance you watched a video to follow its author, you can do all of that from the Fediverse (Mastodon, Pleroma…), or just with RSS.

An interface to call home Be it as a user or an instance administrator, you can decide what your experience will be like. Don't like the colors? They are easy to change. Don't want to list videos of an instance but let your users subscribe to them? Don't like the regular web client? All of that can be changed, and much more. No UX dark pattern, no mining your data, no video recommendation bullshit.

Communities that help each other In addition to visitors using WebTorrent to share the load among them, instances can help each other by caching one another's videos. This way even small instances have a way to show content to a wider audience, as they will be shouldered by friend instances. Content creators can get help from their viewers in the simplest way possible: a support button showing a message linking to their donation accounts or really anything else.

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PeerTube information

  • Developed by

    FR flagFramasoft
  • Licensing

    Open Source (AGPL-3.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4 (39 ratings)
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  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Arabic
    • Welsh
    • German
    • Esperanto
    • Spanish
    • French
    • Scottish Gaelic; Gaelic
    • Croatian
    • Hungarian
    • Indonesian
    • Icelandic
    • Japanese
    • Polish
    • Portuguese
    • Russian
    • Albanian
    • Swedish
    • Ukrainian
    • Serbian
    • Thai
    • Turkish
    • Chinese

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  •  691 Open Issues
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Our users have written 26 comments and reviews about PeerTube, and it has gotten 519 likes

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