[HN Gopher] PeerTube 5.1
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PeerTube 5.1
Author : booteille
Score : 94 points
Date : 2023-03-21 17:17 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (joinpeertube.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (joinpeertube.org)
| jadbox wrote:
| Is there an Android app?
| older wrote:
| NewPipe supports it. There's also TubeLab.
| andrewstuart wrote:
| It may sound shallow, but this won't take off until they get the
| graphic design right - everything about this looks engineering
| and technical and not consumer.
| ZunarJ5 wrote:
| I just bought a domain today for a new instance. :) Excited to
| see this grow!
| codetrotter wrote:
| Love PeerTube! I run an instance and use it to host my videos :)
|
| At the moment I have only two videos on it. But that's ok. I can
| put more videos on it in the future.
| 1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote:
| The sepiasearch.org API is better than YouTube search, IMHO.
| Would be nice if the JSON results had a key for the 11-character
| YouTube ID if one exists. Perhaps many videos published via
| YouTube will also be published via PeerTube. Also wish it was
| possible to "disable" use of Unicode in JSON values. As someone
| who searches and browses YouTube from the command line in
| textmode, I find the use of Unicode in YouTube titles annoying.
| Imagine if HN titles were filled with emojis and other garbage.
| curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/videos?search=t
| est&boostLanguages[]=en&nsfw=true&start=0&count=500"
| curl -A "" "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-
| channels?search=test&start=0&count=500" curl -A ""
| "https://sepiasearch.org/api/v1/search/video-
| playlists?search=test&start=0&count=500"
| booteille wrote:
| PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube.
| The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a
| viable alternative using the strength of P2P and WebTorrent
| protocols.
|
| Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a
| bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On
| the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue
| of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube,
| you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your
| server to host a PeerTube instances because all users (which
| didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be
| able to share this same video to other viewers.
|
| If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough
| to check the official website to learn more about the project. If
| after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator,
| you can try to find an instance available there to register or
| host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.
|
| The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a
| french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group
| of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is
| possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on
| real world and online with and for you!
|
| Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a
| decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events.
|
| If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:
| report bugs and give your feedback on Github
| (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on our forums
| (https://framacolibri.org/c/peertube/38) submit your
| brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
| (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/) Help to translate
| the software, following the contributing guide
| (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-
| started?id=translate) Make a donation to help to pay
| bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
| (https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/)
| TheBigRoomXXL wrote:
| Framasoft, such an amazing association!
| jimbob45 wrote:
| Is there a solution to being liable for distributing
| illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube? That's what's
| keeping me away.
| cortesoft wrote:
| Wouldn't you only distribute illegal/immoral content if you
| were watching it? You only distribute things you yourself are
| streaming.
| [deleted]
| remram wrote:
| I think they might be talking about hosting a PeerTube
| server with open registration? And so random people might
| publish illegal content via their server?
| 3np wrote:
| If this is a concern: don't do open registration without
| approval.
|
| See also: Running a public WiFi hotspot.
| blendergeek wrote:
| > Is there a solution to being liable for distributing
| illegal/immoral content as a peer on PeerTube?
|
| I believe you misunderstand the technology.
|
| There are two components of Peertube.
|
| The server you either self-host or you use someone else's. If
| you are hosting a server and you host other people's content,
| you register for liability protection under section 230 of
| the Communications Decency Act and section 512 of the Digital
| Millenium Copyright Act.
|
| The client is where the "peer" in peertube comes in. If you
| want to be safe from liability, don't watch illegal/immoral
| content. You will be fine.
| BeetleB wrote:
| > If you want to be safe from liability, don't watch
| illegal/immoral content. You will be fine.
|
| This is naive. I don't necessarily know that the content is
| illegal until I've started playing it. By that point I may
| have already shared it.
|
| Same issue with any p2p, I guess. You could start
| downloading a file with a harmless name and later discover
| it was a fake name.
| 3np wrote:
| In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore not
| any crime.
|
| I don't think that's naive, considering that after
| reporting adult sites with obvious CP, the sites are
| still up after several years.
| BeetleB wrote:
| > In either case, I don't see any intent and therefore
| not any crime.
|
| Jurisdictions vary in how the justice system treats
| intent. You do not want to rely on lack of intent to get
| off the hook.
| RosanaAnaDana wrote:
| This is pretty exciting.
|
| I was recently browsing some old saved playlists of mine on
| youtube. Youtube had 'updated' them to be effectively the same
| recommended playlist it always offers me.
|
| Its sad and scary that what amounts to an archive of a generation
| of creativity is effectively only being rented by the people who
| made it so. Relying on youtube as an archive of some of the
| Internets greatest content is concerning giving Googles
| unfortunate track record of managing, well, all of its products.
|
| It seems inevitable that someday yt will die. However and
| whenever that death shapes up, I hope the creatives of the world
| have an opportunity to use something like this (or other
| alternatives like floatplane) to back up their content. Yt is an
| amazing thing, and too valuable to leave in the hands of google.
| prometheus76 wrote:
| yt-dl and a batch file that I run with Task Scheduler every day
| has brought me some relief with regard to ephemeral content on
| youtube. I also grab the subtitles and throw them into a
| database so that I can find a video by something I remembered
| they said in a certain episode.
| haunter wrote:
| I save my playlists every 2nd day with yt-dl(p) to an offline
| HDD since ~2009
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