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PeerTube is a software that you install on a web server.
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PeerTube is software that you install on a web server.
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It allows you to create a video hosting website, so create your "homemade YouTube".
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It allows you to create a video hosting website, so create your "homemade YouTube".
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Broadcasting – and therefore viewing – peer-to-peer (so no slowing down when a video becomes viral).
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Peer-to-peer broadcasting – and therefore viewing – (so no slowing down when a video becomes viral).
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Why is it better as a free/libre software?
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Why is it better as free/libre software?
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Because it's software that respects our fundamental freedoms, and guarantees them by <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/LICENSE">a license</a>, so a legally enforceable contract.
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Because by design free/libre software respects our fundamental freedoms, and guarantees them by <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/LICENSE">a license</a>, so a legally enforceable contract.
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It's development is community-based, it can be enhanced by everyone's contributions.
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Its development is community-based, it can be enhanced by everyone's contributions.
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The advantage of YouTube (and other platforms) is its video catalog: from knitting tutorials to minecraft constructions through videos of kittens or holidays... you can find everything!
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The advantage of YouTube (and other platforms) is its video catalog: from knitting tutorials to Minecraft constructions through videos of kittens or holidays... you can find everything!
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The more the video catalogue is varied, the more people are interested, the more videos are posted... but hosting videos from all over the world is (very, very) expensive!
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The more the video catalogue is varied, the more people are interested, the more videos are uploaded... but hosting videos from all over the world is (very, very) expensive!
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If the hosting provider Knitting-PeerTube becomes friends with Kittens-Tube and Framatube, it will display the videos of others on its site: thus diluting hosting costs while remaining practical and complete for Internet users.
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If the hosting provider Knitting-PeerTube becomes friends with Kittens-Tube and Framatube, it will display the videos of others on its site, thus diluting hosting costs while remaining practical and complete for Internet users.
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When you host a large file like a video, the biggest thing to fear is success: if a video becomes viral and many people watch it at the same time, the server has a big risk of falling!
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When you host a large file like a video, the biggest thing to fear is success: if a video becomes viral and many people watch it at the same time, the server has a big risk of getting overloaded!
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Peer-to-peer broadcasting allows, thanks to the <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC">WebRTC</a> protocol, that Internet users who watch the same video at the same time exchange bits of files, which relieves the server.
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Peer-to-peer broadcasting allows, thanks to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC">WebRTC</a> protocol, that Internet users who watch the same video at the same time exchange bits of files, which relieves the server.
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<strong>It's a software you install on your server</strong> to create a website hosting and broadcasting videos…
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<strong>It's software you install on your server</strong> to create a website where videos are hosted and broadcast…
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Basically: you create your own "homemade YouTube"!
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Basically: you create your own "homemade YouTube"!
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There already are Free-libre softwares that enable you to do this.
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There already exists free/libre software that enables you to do this.
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But with PeerTube, you can link your PeerTube instance (your videos website) to Zaïd's PeerTube instance (where he hosts videos of the lectures for his people's university), to Catherin's (who hosts her webmedia's videos) or even to Solar's PeerTube instance (who manages a vlogers collective).
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But with PeerTube, you can link your instance (your video website) to Zaïd's PeerTube instance (where he hosts videos of the lectures for his people's university), to Catherin's (who hosts her webmedia videos) or even to Solar's PeerTube instance (who manages a vloggers collective).
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Thanks to the <a href="https://activitypub.rocks/">ActivityPub</a> protocol (also used by <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/">the Mastodon federation</a>, a free-libre Twitter alternative), PeerTube can federates several small hosters so they don't have to buy thousands of hard disks to host videos for the whole world.
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Thanks to the <a href="https://activitypub.rocks/">ActivityPub</a> protocol (also used by <a href="https://joinmastodon.org/">the Mastodon federation</a>, a free/libre Twitter alternative), PeerTube can federate several small hosters so they don't have to buy thousands of hard disks to host videos for the whole world.
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As a result, on your PeerTube website, the audience will be able to watch not only your videos, but also videos hosted by Zaïd, Catherin or Solar… without having to host their videos on you PeerTube-powered website.
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As a result, on your PeerTube website, the audience will be able to watch not only your videos, but also videos hosted by Zaïd, Catherin or Solar… without having to host their videos on your PeerTube-powered website.
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Such diversity in a video-catalog makes it very attractive.
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Such a large choice and diversity of videos is what made centralized platforms such as YouTube succesful.
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Such a large choice and diversity of videos made centralized platform such YouTube very succesfull.
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Federation offers another benefit: <strong>everyone becomes independant</strong>.
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Federation offers another benefit: <strong>everyone becomes independent</strong>.
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Zaïd, Catherin, Solar and yourself can make your own rules, your own Terms of Services (for exemple, one can imagine a MeowTube where dogs videos are strictly forbidden🙂).
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Zaïd, Catherin, Solar and yourself can make your own rules, your own Terms of Services (for example, one can imagine a MeowTube where dogs videos are strictly forbidden 🙂).
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It allows you to choose a hoster that fits you.
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It allows you to choose a hoster that fits you.
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YouTube's excesses are a good exemple: its hoster, Google-Alphabet, can impose its "Robocopyright" (the ContentID system) or its tools to index, recommand and spolight videos; and those tools seems as unfair as they are obscure.
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YouTube's excesses are a good exemple: its hoster, Google/Alphabet, can impose its "Robocopyright" (the ContentID system) or its tools to index, recommend and spotlight videos; and those tools seem as unfair as they are obscure.
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Even though, it already forces you <a href="https://tosdr.org/#youtube">to give it extended copyrights on your videos, for free</a>!
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Even though, it already forces you <a href="https://tosdr.org/#youtube">to give it extended copyrights on your videos, for free</a>!
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Before this peer-to-peer broadcast, successful videographers (or videos that make the buzz) were doomed to be hosted by a web giant whose infrastructure can handle millions of simultaneous views…
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Before this peer-to-peer broadcast, successful videographers (or videos that make the buzz) were doomed to be hosted by a web giant whose infrastructure can handle millions of simultaneous views…
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Or to pay for a very expensive independent video host so that it can hold the load.
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For those who wants to watch videos, PeerTube has the benefit of…
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But above all, <strong>PeerTube considers you as a person, and not as a product</strong> that you have to track, profile, and lock in video loops to better sell your available brain time.
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But above all, <strong>PeerTube treats you like a person, not as a product</strong> that it has to track, profile, and lock in video loops to better sell your available brain time.
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Thus, the <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">source code</a> (the recipe) of the PeerTube software is open, making its operation transparent.
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Thus, the <a href="https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube">source code</a> (the recipe) of the PeerTube software is open, making its operation transparent.
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For example, in France, discriminatory content <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_contre_le_racisme_et_les_discours_de_haine">is prohibited</a> and may be <a href="http://stop-discrimination.gouv.fr/agir/ne-pas-laisser-faire-les-recours">reported to the authorities</a>.
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For example, in France, discriminatory content <a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lois_contre_le_racisme_et_les_discours_de_haine">is prohibited</a> and may be <a href="http://stop-discrimination.gouv.fr/agir/ne-pas-laisser-faire-les-recours">reported to the authorities</a>.
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For now, the solution proposed to people who upload videos is to use the "support" button under the video. This button displays a frame in which people who upload videos can display text, images, and links freely. For example, it's possible to put a patreon, Tipeee, Paypal, Liberapay (or another solution) button. Other examples: put an adress for a postcard thanks, put a logo of your enterprise, a link for support an GNO,...
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We did not go any further because to favour a technical solution would be to impose, in the code, a political vision of cultural sharing and its financing. Every financial solutions are possibles in PeerTube.
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We did not go any further because to favour one technical solution would be to impose, in the code, a political vision of cultural sharing and its financing. All financial solutions are possible and treated equally in PeerTube.
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Including those that would allow you to create (and choose) the monetization tools that interest you!
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The complete list of instances <a href="https://instances.joinpeertube.org/">is there</a>, and we show <a href="https://joinpeertube.org/fr/#getting-started">here those that are open to registration</a>.
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We recommend not to install PeerTube on a weak hardware or behind a weak connection (for example, on a RaspberryPi with an ADSL connection): this could slow down all federations.
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D.tube is based on Steem for "remuneration", it is a choice, but Steem is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steemit#Criticism">widely criticized</a> as <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@docdelux/30-days-of-steemit-here-is-my-criticism">highly centralized</a>, and especially <a href="https://steemit.com/steemit/@thecryptonews/psa-constructive-criticism-the-ugly-truth-behind-steemit">close to a Ponzi system</a>.
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