What if we started uploading YT videos to PeerTube? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Obviously excluding videos whose authors explicitly do not want to, or copyrighted content that could create problems for individual instances.

By doing this PeerTube could become a kind of youtube database of quality content, excluding shorts and toxic/futile videos. What do you think of this approach? Could it make PT more attractive, or would it create problems for the platform?

I'm sure many creators would do it themselves but don't have time, or many would do it but don't even know about the existence of the Fediverse. Perhaps you could start by making “fan channels,” with all the most important and significant videos on a youtube channel (so without having to stay up-to-date on recent releases).

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If you have the rights or it's cc then that's fine.

If you don't make sure you have permission from the creators or rights holders.

Feel free to post to: [email protected] if/when you do!

[-] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

And the permission of the peertube admins. A single channel on YouTube can easily be over a TB. Just casually dumping a TB or two of storage onto their wallets is going to cause them to notice.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Admins have the ability to add upper limits to user uploads. I set mine to 100gb but it's a family instance.

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