Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
Reminds me of the time somebody namedropped a hobbyist’s project on prime time national radio in the UK. Their project was a train timetable tracker website, made because the official resource didn’t work too well. The site went down nearly instantly 🤣
I think streaming works best where people self host their own media tbf.
Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
Reminds me of the time somebody namedropped a hobbyist’s project on prime time national radio in the UK. Their project was a train timetable tracker website, made because the official resource didn’t work too well. The site went down nearly instantly 🤣