Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube?

10 pointsgeongeorgek6y ago4 comments

I know there are DTube and Lbry. but those are neither fully decentralized nor provide enough performance.

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beatgammit6y ago· 1 in thread

Well, there's PeerTube, which is federated. I guess it's not decentralized, but there's no single central server, so it probably meets your requirements.

connorcodes6y ago

PeerTube is also special because it uses the activityPub format, so anyone on Mastodon or GNUsocial can follow somebody on PeerTube.

d--b6y ago· 1 in thread

Popcorntime in a way was a decentralized video service.

Performance would degrade for less popular videos.

meditations6y ago

It can be solved. For example: assign peers for videos with lower number of peers instead of assigning peers for currently watching video. Please correct me, if I’m wrong.

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