The costly storage isn’t worth it, apparently.
Peertube can stream
It’s true, they can. But that storage isn’t cheap either. If everyone up and walked away from twitch the peer tube instances couldn’t handle it in bandwidth or storage.
I honestly like to see peer tube architecture change a little bit. Instead of contributors needing to stand up an entire server to join in the pool maybe They could just leave a platform dependent executable running that provides local storage and peering, The indexing could still be left to the hosted servers.
I feel that everyone should be paying to host their video locally, and then benefit from Network peering for distribution.
The fact that commercial sites pay to keep nearly limitless amounts of your files online as frankly insane.
Honestly that is a great idea. With a p2p network you could have automatic NAT traversal so that all one would need to do is run a client on a PC that would be the central source for content. From a viewer perspective you could have some sort of caching system that would reduce the network load.
I don’t see Peertube doing anything like that and the current organization behind it isn’t great. It needs a lot of funding and ambition with a clear monetization strategy.
Peer tube already supports P2P. If 10 people are all watching the same video they’ll share pieces to other people.
I was trying to throw it up in my home lab a couple of months ago and having to set it up with public access DNS and namespace beforehand seemed unnecessary. If there was an option where At least in part it were just like a torrent client I think it would go over a lot better.
I think it needs a more decentralized architecture with central control servers managed by a company. The community would do the bulk of the lifting and the company would scrap revenue off the top. They would manage a payment system for paid content and merch.
No good having it centralized and managed by a company.
It will never be all that useful then. You need some sort of financial support. Video content is expensive.
Wish they would go after the starting soon screen that most run for 30 minutes before they actually get on to stream
What exactly is the harm? I would assume they are checking to ensure all of their hardware and software is working as intended. You’re free to view something else or enjoy an entirely different activity in the interim.
I think what they mean is that it takes storage space for no reason after the stream is over
That’s viable. I think limiting total storage and leaving it up to them to trim the video down is a good solution.
If someone says the show is starting at 7:00 and I arrive at 7:00 I expect their show to start within a few minutes. If they’re still checking to make sure things are working a half an hour later, they fucked up.
That sounds very entitled, honestly. They have zero obligation to you, and things happen.
I do considered myself entitled to people keeping their word. It’s obviously a dying belief however.
They have every obligation to their subscribers. Streamers are professional beggars, suggesting that they have no obligation to their viewers/subs is kind of ridiculous.
They literally don’t. You are not buying the person, that is ridiculous. If you feel inclined (you’re not to), you can send money because you enjoyed the stream or whatever. Throwing money at them did not create an obligation on their part. That’s entitlement.
What exactly do you think the business model of streamers are? We’re not talking about Joe playing baldurs gate with his 15 subscribers. We’re talking about Rihanna showing up 4 hours late, drunk as fuck.
Rihanna is a billionaire. Streaming is not in her business model. 🤣
No you’re buying the content, which is the person. I’m not debating this with you.
Then why are you debating? You’re wrong and entitled. Frankly, it’s a bit disgusting to think you have purchased a person for $5 or any amount.
