• nuzzlerat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I need to know how they are handling the server costs involved… even if you host your own instance for just your own uploads, you are still going to be paying a lot whenever people are watching those videos, no?

    Video is a way different ballgame than regular social media imo

    • dedale@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
      I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

      • Timwi@kbin.social
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        1 year ago

        BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?