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] 3 points 3 months ago

PeerTube can't store all videos. Only Youtube can handle the storage cost by using ads due to the massive amount of users. But you could still have a list of links etc. for videos. Maybe stream directly the video youtube but never be on the youtube site. This might already exist in form of FreeTube. It only misses the possibility to view PeerTube vides as well.

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

With enough PeerTube servers, it might be possible 😁

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Maybe with different servers. But then you need a good aggregation tool and seamless experience shifting between them.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

They just need to be federated and all content from all of them is available on each server.

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