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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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  • Online
  • Android
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  • Self-Hosted
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Features

Properties

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

Features

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

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Comments and Reviews

   
Comment summary: PeerTube is praised as an open-source, federated video platform that avoids mandatory advertising, supports ActivityPub and peer-to-peer bandwidth sharing, and lets communities host and distribute content independently. Users value its freedom, privacy options, and improving usability, but adoption and content variety remain limited. Recurring concerns include inconsistent moderation across instances, weak search, JavaScript dependence, setup complexity, and occasional difficult navigation.
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Troupal
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PeerTube is currently in alpha and will be beta in March. It is free software, decentralized, shared and based on the principle of instance. Indeed, everyone can create his own instance and share his content with the content of other instances. This gives it complete freedom of expression, a neutral service, a much greater diversity of content, and even the possibility of paying videographers based on fairer and different models. But above all, to offer a free alternative to GAFAMs and their model. For more information, visit the FramaTube website, proposed by the Framasoft association.

aporritt95
1

i love open source and it better then youtube

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Juri
1

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

beaver73728
2

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

m_lemmi
3

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.

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K0RR
6

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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