Father of two, husband, gamer, lover of free software, and willing teacher.

Creator of Fireside Fedi Show: https://video.firesidefedi.live/@show

Chief Executive Officer BT Free: https://btfree.org/

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  • Thank you for listening! :-)

    My group has been attempting to figure this out as well. LogalDeveloper has tried leveraging WebTorrent, but it seems that Peertube has deprecated that and while it can hook it, it never servers anything to anyone. Then he found out they changed to WebRTC and it does more of a direct push.

    We do know that folks can set a redundancy in Peertube and then the end user will pull from any of the redundancy sites. Which isn’t really ideal, because if you have a bad site, that’s obviously outside of your control, it could make a poor experience for the end user. At least this is our theory and appears to be true.

    If we’re wrong, we’d love to know how and where. But Peertube is REALLY impressive imo as to all it’s doing. And it seems like they’re really open to help.


  • I’m seeing this question more and more. As of this moment I don’t know of any clients or web ways to watch the videos or help offload videos. There’s the mobile app, you can embed videos, but all of that still neess the full peertube somewhere.

    Since so many folks keep asking about it, I’d love to see someone try to make a client or lightweight video hosting that federates or something like that. But it’d take the community as there’s only one Dev for Peertube and they’re busy with Peertube itself.

    If folks know of something that OP is talking about I’d also love to know!







  • Why not?

    I’m already an advocate of the Fediverse and as I’ve been talking with folks personally, they’re all asking what instance they should go on. So this is a way for me to directly onboard folks to the Fediverse, should they be interested.

    It’s a general instance that is backed by a nonprofit corporation that is working on it’s 501©3. So any donations can be tax deductible in the future when it’s complete.

    I’m just attempting to foster the Fediverse is the big reason why.

    I have some thoughts on potential monetization sharing. Have to ask my accountant. We’re a moderated instance looking for fun and quality content. We’re currently self hosting our own PT auto-follow index and hoping to get up a moderated search index soon as well.