Can someone explain this to me lol. What am I looking at here? 👀 I'm sure it's exciting if you understand lol
Discussion
Self host content mirroring and serve to others.
Is this similar to peertube? I barely even know what that is.
I'll just assume it's exciting, I'm too thick for this lol
I run a peertube instance. peertube is closer to mastodon/pleroma. people wanted the option to "seed" peertube videos using a bittorrent seedbox or their home computer, but the feature was poorly supported and later removed. peertube videos typically live on a VPS or any block storage that is connected to it, and HLS-P2P can optionally reduce the server load by fetching part of the video from other people who happen to be playing it, but it's not as fancy as this new thing.
It's a lot of different uses that's what makes it a bit confusing:
1. People download their favourite videos to have a self sovereign archive on their hard drives.
2. They can offer their archives to others (published on NOSTR)
3. Since it's would be costly to host all those videos online, people can request videos on demand.
We still have a lot to figure out, though 🙏