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PeerTube

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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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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Platforms

  • Online
  • Android
  • iPhone
  • Self-Hosted
  • Cloudron
  • F-Droid
4.2 / 5 Avg rating (45)
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Features

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Properties

  1.  Free Speech
  2.  Privacy focused

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.  Support for HD videos
  12.  Support for WebTorrent
  13.  Fediverse
  14.  HTTPS Support
  15.  Comment section
  16.  Federated Cloud
  17.  Support for SD videos
  18.  No Tracking
  19.  Support for 4K
  20.  No registration required

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    14 days ago
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    14 days ago
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    about 1 month ago
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    about 1 month ago
  • POX updated PeerTube
    2 months ago
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    2 months ago
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    Ituaf added PeerTube as alternative to Parti
    3 months ago
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    3 months ago
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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.
whjms
  
Top positive commentJul 4, 2019

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
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m_lemmi
  
Top negative commentNov 16, 2024

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.

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RemovedUser
  
ReviewMay 21, 2024
• Edited May 31, 2024

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
  
Positive commentDec 20, 2023

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

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securegh
  
Positive commentNov 28, 2023

Awesome project, easy to make an account and publish video using a download url or import from youtube.

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Craig Jarrett
  
Negative commentNov 1, 2023

When you visit the Peertube site and see that Extinction Rebellion is a promoted platform that is a massive turn off straight away, also very odd because YouTube/Google is very much in bed with XR.

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Vintage2079
  
Negative commentFeb 9, 2023

I was on PeertubeUK for less than two minutes when i stumbled across a proud and activly PRO-peadophilia channel. Three years later someone explained to me that it can sometime take the moderator a couple of weeks to notice and ban these channels. So i went back and double checked. Not only was "Peadophilia Is OK" still there, but it was in the most popular section, with literally one hudred times the views of the average channel on there.

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NejyCR

This unfortunately is one of the trade-offs for decentralization - it attracts those types shunned from other services.

Reply written Jun 3, 2023

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Foroneus

PeerTube is free (as in freedom) server software and thus, anyone can host it; as a result, FramaSoft does not have the ability to control who can use their software without compromising their ideals. This is an issue for whoever hosts the instance, not the software itself.

Reply written Oct 29, 2023

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Craig Jarrett

I notice the nonce defenders are replying to this comment.

Reply written Nov 1, 2023

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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

    Framasoft
  • Licensing

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

    Average rating of 4.2 (45 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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PeerTube was added to AlternativeTo by basix on Jan 10, 2018 and this page was last updated Jan 27, 2025.