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PeerTube, the 'Decentralized YouTube,' Succeeds In Crowdfunding (quariety.com)
A crowdfunded project, known as "PeerTube," has blown through its initial goal with 53,100 euros collected in forty-two days. The project aims to be "a fully decentralized version of YouTube, whose computer code is freely accessible and editable, and where videos are shared between users without relying on a central system." The goal is PeerTube to officially launch by October. Quariety reports: PeerTube relies on a decentralized and federative system. In other words, there is no higher authority that manages, broadcasts and moderates the content offered, as is the case with YouTube, but a network of "instances." Created by one or more administrators, these communities are governed according to principles specific to each of them. Anyone can freely watch the videos without registering, but to upload a video, you must choose from the list of existing instances, or create your own if you have the necessary technical knowledge. At the moment, 141 instances are proposed. Most do not have specifics, but one can find communities centered on a theme or open to a particular region of the world. In all, more than 4,000 people are currently registered on PeerTube, for a total of 338,000 views for 11,000 videos. The project does not display ads, unlike YouTube. "In terms of monetization, we wanted to make a neutral tool," says Pouhiou, communication officer for Framasoft, the origin of PeerTube. The site will rely on a "support" button at the start, but "people will be able to code their own monetization system" in the future.
Wouldn't this just be a "youtube" front-end for torrents?
That should be "someone doesn't know"
Child porn would have millions of views...
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This will in no way become just a front end for torrent sites. Nah. :D
It's interesting from the standpoint of disseminating information people want to give out freely and not be at the mercy of a centralized server, but typically the altruistic part will get dwarfed by the pirates pr0n.
The lack of monetization will keep both very high quality original content away from it as well as bottom-feeder clickbait and top ten lists.
Speaking as someone who makes part of his living off of YouTube, it doesn't really hold an interest for me, but if I was not concerned with monetizing my videos directly, it sounds interesting.
It is just so ripe for abuse that it will be interesting to see if legitimate players can even function in that environment. But if one of the 'instances' they speak of can be moderated, people could exist within the instance relatively harmoniously.
If this is "decentralized YouTube" then SVN and CVS are "decentralized version control". Every time people slap the word "decentralized" something (hi Diaspora) they mean something akin to sharding systems common to an MMO where you choose a server to play on and can only interact with other characters on that server -- which was done for performance reasons.
Git, on the other hand, is truly decentralized. No one's repo is more central than anyone else's by design. Doing social media this way is completely possible, but no one's done it yet...;)
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Anybody can host videos with a free or cheap web site
Go ahead and link the free or cheap website where I can host hundreds of gigabytes of 4k content. Make sure the site has the capability to stream that video in 4k to hundreds of thousands of people simultaneously.
[a href="blah.mp4"]blah video[/a]. I don't understand why this project exists, except that perhaps some (many) people simply don't understand how the web works.
Lump yourself into that group.
This isn't about the video player frontend. Obviously there are unlimited choices for playing a video. It's about providing a distributed *backend* (hosting) to store the video data. Which in spite of your claim above is a technically challenging expensive endeavor.
I think we can all agree that a Javascript variant is not something that should be used to make a server and yet, this is exactly what they used to write a server.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Get a million views at once, maybe. Get a million views over x time? Who cares.
Sites should absolutely just provide torrent links for their shit.
So...the remainder would come from a pizza shop in D.C.?
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Strat :)
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