Presumably this is due to recent actions regarding adblockers over at Youtube.
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292 TB wow that’s is a lot of data , how much data does YouTube have saved then? Exabytes?
Is it? Is it really? I have about 50tb total in storage, and I’m fairly budget conscious. I know people who have hundreds of TB storage.
300TB is in range of what a normal middle class person can put together on a hobby basis.
The maximum I have is like 20 TB.
A guess, but easily yes I’m guessing, given 1TB stores like a few YouTube channels and all of their videos? Like not a lot at 1080p or especially 4k.
(Hosted channels on lbry/odysee, I thought I could fit 100 channels in 1TB, I could only do like 8 or 10 when I was done).
I‘m thinking of hosting a peertube instance just for funzies. It seems like an awesome thing. I just dont „get“ it as much as I get mastodon, lemmy and matrix. Something about the discovery process does not click with me yet. Is anyone making an ios (i know) app soon?
Is there somewhere I can read about how you would go about using peertube? I’m not sure I completely understand how it works.
Thanks!
If you’re talking about from the creator side I did a bit of digging into the ins and outs when I joined a few weeks ago and did a writeup here, might have something of use in it https://lemm.ee/post/8545893
Excellent post, thank you. I’m just a viewer—is there any reason to join an instance? How do I find content that interests me?
Honestly I don’t think there is a reason, there aren’t many features for viewers on there and it’s just another account to deal with. You can subscribe to accounts / channels from Lemmy or Mastodon or presumably whatever other Fedi service you’re already on, and leave comments / upvotes from there.
The search function on a given PT instance is only going to return results it’s federated with so I think the only way to get a “global” search and find things across all the instances at once is https://search.joinpeertube.org
I know makertube.net is having an issue at the moment where some fairly big maker channels are coming over, and just dumping their entire back catalogue in one go and spamming everything up. It’s very annoying, so if you’re considering a jump to PT please don’t do this. You can import your YT videos as private, and schedule them to publish one by one instead.
The MakerTube admin posted an update just last week saying we had funding through the end of year, but since a load of new people just signed up they’ve now had to spin up extra resources so that might no longer be the case. How many of these new channels will actually donate remains to be seen!
Edit: Also if you’re a viewer, remember you don’t need a PeerTube account to subscribe to channels! You can get them in your Lemmy, Mastodon etc feeds and leave comments / upvotes without ever leaving your platform of choice.
any idea why makertube does not appear on fediverse observer?
No idea! I just searched for some of the biggest instances and they’re not on there either 🤷♀️
Thanks for the feedback, i opened a bug here.
In my eyes, Piped and such are the ideal solution, not peertube. Not, because peertube is bad, but because with using Piped, you can have your videos and you can have them on a FOSS surface, but leave the nasty tasks like paying for enough storage to host all those videos to the data guzzlers who get denied their return. Some real Robin hood shit right there.
Unless you’re also throwing money at YouTube premium (etc), isn’t this by definition unsustainable to do? So it’s not really a viable long-term strategy either.
Like don’t get me wrong, I don’t want all the tracking and stuff either, but somebody has to pay those server bills. If it’s not happening through straight cash then it’s going to be through increasingly aggressive monetization and cost-cutting strategies.
Oh, Reality-Norgur is well aware of that. Yet, I decided to let fantasy-Norgur take over for a bit ;)
Piped will work as long as youtube allows them too and not a second longer. Reliance on an actor that hates you, isn’t the “ideal solution”. Newpipe breaks every time google decides they want to change how youtube works and invidio, freetube, piped, etc. all do too when that happens. That’s far from ideal.
Good news!
