Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.

Here are the stats

Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB

I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.

Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.

  • grue@lemmy.world
    8·
    2 months ago

    Considering how often people try to retort “BuT WhAt aBoUt tHe bAnDwIdTh cOsTs” whenever it’s mentioned as a YouTube alternative, it seems like almost nobody realizes that.

    • FundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      7·
      2 months ago

      Yeah. Because if it was hosted the same way lemmy is (with storage of posts across all servers once they federate) it would be a storage and bandwidth nightmare.