• eric5949@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    How does peertube work exactly? Because if it hosts the video on just the one “instance” or server or whatever a viral video will almost certainly have it’s legs cut from under it very quickly. Don’t get me wrong I want YouTube to have viable competition but videos are huge.

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      1 year ago

      From the documentation:

      A PeerTube instance can mirror other PeerTube videos to improve bandwidth use.

      The instance administrator can choose between multiple redundancy strategies (cache trending videos or recently uploaded videos etc.), set their maximum size and the minimum duplication lifetime. Then, they choose the instances they want to cache in Manage follows -> Following admin table.

      Videos are kept in the cache for at least min_lifetime, and then evicted when the cache is full.