PeerTube
PeerTube is a decentralized, free and open source alternative to video broadcasting services.
- Free • Open Source
- Online
- Self-Hosted
- Cloudron
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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.
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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Summary
Our users have written 14 comments and reviews about PeerTube, and it has gotten 236 likes
- Developed by Framasoft
- Open Source and Free product.
- Average rating of 4.3
- 58 alternatives listed
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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.
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I like PeerTube because is very good and easy
Strength:
• Easy to use. Short 2 minutes introduction video at https://framatube.org/videos/watch/217eefeb-883d-45be-b7fc-a788ad8507d3
• Open source. If you are not familiar with "open source", it means this software is more secure. Because its code is publicly available for review and contributions on GitHub at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
• Attractive GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPLv3). This means the software code is owned and supported by a friendly not-for-profit community. Instead of a for-profit corporation. License at https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/LICENSE
• Unlimited quota. Upload and download.(1)
• Really decentralized & federated
• ActivityPub(1)
• Uses BitTorrent and WebTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users(1)
• Follow, report, or block people
• Automatically transcode your videos in multiple resolutions
• Import video from URL
• Optionally, protect your privacy from abuse by choosing a PeerTube instance physically hosted outside both the Cloud Act & the Patriot Act. Assuming your content is within the local laws.
(1)Assumes the PeerTube instance you choose both activated and allow those
Challenge:
• Written in TypeScript. With Apache License 2.0 licence. The risk is that TypeScript was both designed & develop by Microsoft. Source https://archive.md/vd6aY
And Microsoft have a long history of make very weak privacy and weak security software and products. Also according to Bill Gate himself, Microsoft value hoarding money above people. So the risk is that in the future, Microsoft might try to somehow interfere with TypeScript and or PeerTube community to monetize them.
One way to resolve this challenge would be use PHP instead of TypeScript. Read more about PHP at https://www.php.net or at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
Using:
• PeerTube 2.3.0
• Tested with this https://open.tube instance. Which is a censorship-free Youtube alternative. Thankfully they do NOT tolerate porn and nazi or terrorism propaganda.
Your last statement sounds like an example of what George Orwell called doublethink. How can something be censorship-free if it doesn't tolerate "nazi propaganda?" If certain videos are being deleted or prohibited for ideological reasons, then the service is obviously not free from censorship.
Reply written about 1 year ago
federation of it 's decentralization could be better..
love that it's open source !
This program will never be popular! Personally, I do not want to install extra scripts on my PC! I do not like in principle - federalization! (no one and no one answers!) You will not be able to draw anyone to responsibility if your information is stolen or your rights are violated! None of the stars and the great ones that you dream about will not install unnecessary software on your computer, it is much easier and faster to log in to the Web and see what you want!
Then don't use it, simple as that
Reply written 7 months ago