Peertube

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A free software to take back control of your videos

Peertube is an open, federated alternative to Youtube without advertising or tracking. On this site, you can find a good Peertube instance, with good rules, good moderation and most importantly a friendly community.

https://joinpeertube.org/

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Why does it seem like peertube instances hardly federate? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Fizz@lemmy.nz to c/peertube@lemmy.ml

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I've tried a few peertube instances, peertubenz tilvids, makertube and a few others. I always run into a problem that I dont experience on mastodon or lemmy. I will follow a link and I will try and subscribe to that person from my peertube account and I wont be able to because whatever peertube instance im on doesnt federate.

I get not wanting to federate with every random server but I would have expected a decent network to have formed.

Maybe I have just been signing up to the wrong instances or am doing something wrong.

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[–] mesamunefire@piefed.social 6 points 1 month ago

Peertube.wtf has been my savior in all this. But my tiny instance federates. I agree its a bit frustrating sometimes.

I think that many do not federate because they don't want to deal with federation traffic + video traffic. Just FYI, my tiny raspberry pi equivalent server can keep up with both Noe for over a year ;)

Or they don't want others to know they have illegal content. I'm not 100% sure why.