PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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orphereus•25 minutes ago

Does it have good content? I explored it a bit in the past, but was a bit underwhelmed with content I could find there.

Edit: in the past

RobotToaster•23 minutes ago

Last time I tried it the federation was whitelist based, that is you could only follow people on instances added by the admin of your instance. This made content discovery difficult.

pocksuppet•26 minutes ago

With these kind of projects I think there are unfortunately social factors as well as technical factors.

It's one thing to put a <video> element on a HTML page, it's quite another to make people actually watch it instead of their TikTok feed.

thinkingtoilet•23 minutes ago

My recent experience with PeerTube was to click on the OpenMW released video and the video didn't load. Is that a regular occurrence on PeerTube?

ekjhgkejhgk•43 minutes ago

Does it allow streaming?

serendipty01•38 minutes ago

Docs:

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/create-upload-video#publis...

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/configuration#live-strea...

mxuribe•38 minutes ago

I'm not affiliated with peertube...but yes it does enable/support streaming: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube#video-streaming-even-...

polonbike•34 minutes ago

Yes. But a click on the link will provide a more detailed answer.

EGreg•35 minutes ago

This does: https://safebots.github.io/Safecloud

I designed it in order to stream videos and get paid without worrying about getting deplatformed

Two weeks ago it was covered in a respected security publication: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser...

It's coming out soon, but if you're adventurous, you can try it on GitHub already.

Edit: I posted it on HN right now as https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48763565

PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform

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