Notices by 3dcandy (3dcandy@mastodon.social), page 2

@feditips @jarocats also you seem to be confusing p2p and federated videos. You federate a lot of videos they don't necessarily use p2p. Federation and p2p on peertube are different. Most videos playback using hls and that is not p2p, but coming from the host instance. That is why you are not seeing huge costs

@feditips @jarocats the p2p functionality changed back in v5. This has been mentioned by the devs loads of times, the p2p functionality isn't being removed but as most instances don't do it - yours included as you only host 185 mb of content on your peertube instance which is to be frank really really low I can't see how you have relevant experience to comment fully. Running an instance with a low amount of content isn't what I am talking about. My instance has 66 gig of content!

@feditips @jarocats of course, but in practice it doesn't work like that because most videos aren't p2p and it is being deprecated. Also for peertube to work well you need to transcode to various resolutions as well and that needs a heck of a lot of hardware. You cannot paper over the facts that producing and running a decent peertube instance needs a substantial investment, and I know I have tried. You rarely get any help from others watching as the traffic simply isn't there

@jarocats @feditips regarding servers/instances then the issue with peertube is it needs a high level of hardware and decent bandwidth with all the costs that go with it meaning some sort of revenue is needed. Also if you want a Mastodon instance you can't go wrong with the mastodon.social one as that will always be around (well as long as Mastodon is)

@pixelfed I'm still getting package invalid on my Samsung Android phone so can't update. I will uninstall and re-install later

@feditips @yunohost of course, but owncast is fairly limited as well. I have overseen hundreds of livestreams and the platforms at the moment are all over the place. Not wanting to get into an argument about it but they are all crying out to move to newer ways. Youtube has just made a huge set of changes that owncast and the others need to do really. If Peertube gets on the rtmp enhanced bandwagon it would be awesome. I have a peertube instance ad 3dctube.3dcandy.social btw...

@feditips @yunohost only issue with peertube via yunohost is that several of the options are not enabled by default. Also livestreaming really doesn't work well with PT under YH due to how YH works....

@feditips with 5.2 it's a lot lot better, but you need powerful hardware and servers to run an instance well....