• onlinepersona@programming.dev
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    11 months ago

    You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

    Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube.

    Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtf
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      11 months ago

      You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

      That’s why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.

      Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

      Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that’s coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.