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ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

82 mentions on Hacker News by 59 people: 11 stories, 71 comments · first 2017-07-28 · latest 2026-07-03

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  1. PeerTube is also worth a mention. They just released 1.0.0. so now's a good time to evaluate it. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
    comment by mitchtbaum · 2018-10-17 · in YouTube down worldwide
  2. …and have a UI that internally deploys containers/content for them for a couple bucks a month. 0 - https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/...
  3. …but honestly I think the issue closure here has branded PeerTube as forever small fry in my mind https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/1229
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    PeerTube, a free and federated video platform reaches 1.0
    story by valeg · 2018-10-11 · 10 comments
  5. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube License is AGPL v3.0... tldrlegal shows us this https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-lice...
    comment by browsercoin · 2018-09-19 · in Getting started with PeerTube
  6. I think Mastodon is more like Twitter and PeerTube[1] is like Yoututbe. Both use Activity Pub. [1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
  7. …why not scrape all the videos (those with the right licenses of course) and put them on PeerTube? https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
    comment by fabricexpert · 2018-06-25 · in DevTube: Searchable index of developer videos
  8. See also https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/685 for discussion on implementing webtorrent over i2p
  9. …the content viewing history of IPs. I see this being a big hurdle for any mainstream adoption. 0. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/316
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    GitHub – Chocobozzz/PeerTube
    story by axiomdata316 · 2018-06-20 · 0 comments
  11. Here's the website: https://joinpeertube.org/en/home/ And project page: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube So you can avoid medium.
  12. And you should also consider contributing ! It’s Typescript on client and server. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
  13. From https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/support/... > Please don't install PeerTube for production on a small device behind a low bandwidth connection (example: a Raspberry PI behind your ADSL link) because it could slow…
  14. …[1] https://twitter.com/app4soft/status/1009208842494906368 [2] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/issues/675
  15. …I urge you to support projects such as PeerTube[1] any way you can (code, running a node etc.). [1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
  16. "Peer-to-peer-YouTube" already exists btw: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
    comment by jhasse · 2018-04-16 · in Time to rebuild the web?
  17. …working without all the crypto and money making stuff on top. Similar to mastodon [2]. [1] https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube [2] https://mastodon.social/about
  18. …database? It is specified in the project README. Your server will only host/share its own videos: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube#backend As a server admin you may subscribe to other servers to have their videos presented on your…
  19. …to medium sized creators are better off getting community support through patreon or similar. 0: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/blob/develop/FAQ.md#a...
  20. https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube ? :)
  21. …in regards to social media. The only federated video sharing alternative I'm aware of is PeerTube: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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    Federated (ActivityPub) video streaming platform using BitTorrent in browser
    story by em3rgent0rdr · 2018-03-23 · 0 comments
  23. Federated microblogging: https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon Distributed video streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
  24. Also checkout peertube which is also federated but doesn't run on IPFS: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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    PeerTube – Federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in the browser
    story by rayalez · 2018-01-24 · 50 comments
  26. …of theses posts. ActivityPub has private messages defined properly in the spec. It seems PeerTube ( https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube ) will also use ActivityPub.
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    Federated video streaming platform using WebTorrent directly in the web browser
    story by habi · 2018-01-22 · 0 comments
  28. You may be interested in PeerTube: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
  29. Or with PeerTube, which makes videos available in the browser AND uses a bittorrent-like protocol: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube
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    PeerTube – Decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent)
    story by modinfo · 2017-12-12 · 0 comments
  31. The other day I stumbled upon this project: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube It's a federated tube that uses ActivityPub and WebTorrent. I think this platform should be invested in and creators should consider moving. The interests…
    comment by Sir_Cmpwn · 2017-11-30 · in YouTube monetization analysis
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    Decentralized video streaming using P2P directly in the browser with WebTorrent
    story by JoshTriplett · 2017-07-28 · 0 comments