What do you mean? They are organised by PeerTube’s own categories.

Thanks. Fixed :)

I just use this addon for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/

It automatically redirects to my own preferred instance, when I visit a PeerTube link. It can also redirect you from YouTube to PeerTube, if the video exists on Peertube.

PeerTube is part of The Fediverse, as it also uses the ActivityPub protocol. However, the PeerTube part of the Fediverse, is very fragmented. Most PeerTube instances only follow a select few other instances.

If you take a look at this page at PeerTube.wtf, you will see that the instance is connected with 1091 other PeerTube instances.

PeerTube.tv is not only running a very old version, but is also only connected to 8 other instances.

Have a look at this post, for the most inter-connected PeerTube instances: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15816115

It’s really awesome and it’s also possible to setup your PeerTube instance as a peer, for another PeerTube instance’s videos.

You can see here:

The instance videos.abnormalbeings.space has a copy of the video 17 New Indie Games – June 2025, that’s hosted on PeerTube.wtf.

So when you go to the video, you’ll see it has at least 2 peers - peertube.wtf + videos.abnormalbeings.space.

You can disable the P2P feature.

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If he had hosting costs, that would mean he’s hosting his own PeerTube instance, which is definitely something big content creators should be doing. But he could start out with using Tilvids.com (like The Linux Experiment) or another PeerTube instance.

How does he backup his videos today? Wouldn’t it make sense if you used your backup solution with your own PeerTube instance?

You can see the current median price here: https://siascan.com/

The storage providers set their own prices and the renters set how much they want to pay.

Just storing data is very cheap at $1.51/TB.

Some in the fediverse ask why I’m not on Peertube. Here’s the problem (and it’s not insurmountable): right now, there’s no easy path towards sustainable content production when the audience for the content is 100x smaller, and the number of patrons/sponsors remains proportionally the same.

How is this preventing Jeff from also uploading his videos to PeerTube? It can literally be automated by PeerTube.

If the Linux Experiment can, then why not Jeff as well?

I have used it before and it worked just fine. Just don’t use it for PeerTube 😅

Siacoin.

PeerTube is not an alternative client. It is its own video platform.

Instances / Servers

I’m not talking about ads.

Set it up and ask other PeerTube servers to mirror your videos, so that viewers will stream the video from there as well.

It’s possible to filter only local videos.

One thing that might get more content creators on PeerTube could be “advertising” as not just a video platform, but also a backup service.

I’m guessing most content creators have their original video and video project files backed up somewhere. Why not have the ability to use PeerTube for that?

You can already have PeerTube store the original video file, when you upload it, something YouTube can’t do.

From PeerTube docs:

At the beginning of PeerTube, we only supported Web Video (previously known as “WebTorrent”) streaming. Due to several limitations of the Web Video system, we had to add HLS with P2P support. Unfortunately, we can’t use the same video file for the two methods: we need to transcode 2 different versions of the file (a fragmented mp4 for HLS, and a raw mp4 for Web Videos).

So if you enable Web Videos and HLS, the storage will be multiplied by 2.

We recommend you to enable HLS (and disable Web Videos if you don’t want to store 2 different versions of the same video resolution) because video playback in PeerTube web client is better:

• Support P2P (using WebRTC) to exchange parts of the video with other users watching the same video to save server bandwidth

• Support video redundancy by other PeerTube platforms

• The player can adapt video resolution automatically

• Video resolution change is smoother

It’s probably not WebTorrent you are using, HLS.

Also, thank you for running with redundancy! I need to get it setup myself, with some new SSDs.

There’s nothing stopping you installing PeerTube on your own home server and uploading your videos to that.

If your internet bandwidth is low, you can have other PeerTube servers mirror your videos.

So when someone watches your videos, it will not only download the data from your home server, but also from other PeerTube servers that mirror your videos.

It won’t reduce server storage usage, because the video needs to be placed somewhere, but it will reduce bandwidth and traffic usage.

Some PeerTube websites have Sepia Search enabled, so fx from PeerTube.wtf, you can search through 1000+ servers.