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what is the alternative to youtube?
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As @mizu@lemmy.world said, the software PeerTube exists. However, due to the extreme costs of video hosting, a general purpose PeerTube instance does not exist. It would cost alot for video storage and more importantly moderators to ensure content is not illegal.
Maybe if we all paid @ruud@lemmy.world like $20/month we could get PeerTube.world
It would be nice if peertube had an integrated subscription/payment method so you could support and subscribe to content you enjoy.
What we need is for PeerTube to use ActivityPub for the searching and listing, but something like Bittorrent to distribute the load of the content delivery.
I believe that's already built into PeerTube. The p2p (torrentlike) aspect that is.
You are literally describing PeerTube.
Isn't that exactly how peertube works? https://framatube.org/w/kkGMgK9ZtnKfYAgnEtQxbv
Haven't read up on PeerTube, but I imagine that you would still need to keep a copy of the video stored somewhere centrally if you don't want it going away when no one is watching it anymore, so even if p2p can help reduce bandwidth costs, you still have storage costs.