PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website to learn more about the project. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft, a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events and Meetup.

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums
submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform
Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide
Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'm asking this before I register.

I still don't get PeerTube. Is it like Lemmy, where signing up to one "platform" gives you access to other platform's content with the same login? Or is each platform separate and only videos there will be shown?

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

It's federated like Lemmy, so each platform has 'local videos' and an 'all videos' section. E.g. https://fedi.video/videos/local and https://fedi.video/videos/overview

Of course, since it's federated, it means other platforms like PieFed, MBIN and Mastodon can access the same stuff, so you don't need to register anywhere if you're on one of them.

[–] MisterD@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why can't peertube use lemmy accounts too?

Couldn't they just join the fediverse like masterdon?

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 11 points 3 months ago

Just a temporary thing with Lemmy I think - PeerTube (like Lemmy and Mastodon) are already part of the fediverse. You used to be able to successfully subscribe to PeerTube channels from Lemmy (when it was on 0.18), and likely will be able to in future (it's just a Lemmy bug that needs a fix).

[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

Awesome! Thank you!

[–] LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee 2 points 3 months ago

Can I use a seedbox to host videos for peertube?