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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 ActivityPub and P2P 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 platform 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 a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform 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 or on our forums
- submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
- Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
- Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.
Very well explained… I think a lot of people do not get it and take Peertube for another entertainment platform, only with poor content!
Very cool, but is this the right community for it?
Linux is more than just code, it’s community and values. Peertube certainly represents those ideas more than data harvesting systems designed by advertising companies to track us. I think we should support the communities, companies and software in line with our motivations for using Linux, namely freedom in the case of Peertube.
Ah, the remote transcode function will really help with hosting it. You can get a relatively cheap VPS with fast net connection, but those usually lack the CPU power to transcode the videos on upload. But now it seems like you can have a fast PC somewhere on a reasonably fast fiber line onto which you can off-load the video transcoding job easily.