[HN Gopher] PeerTube 2.1
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       PeerTube 2.1
        
       Author : jrepinc
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2020-02-13 21:57 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (joinpeertube.org)
 (TXT) w3m dump (joinpeertube.org)
        
       | viraptor wrote:
       | Something I still can't figure out is: If I want to explicitly
       | provide a mirror for videos of a specific account (or maybe just
       | a specific list of videos), is there an app that can do it? Or is
       | the website the only P2P implementation right now?
        
         | the8472 wrote:
         | In general P2P means that if you want to run a "server" for
         | some content then all you do have to run is another peer that
         | happens to have that content. That said, p2p _in browsers_ is
         | comically crippled, so the general rule may not apply here.
        
       | dragonsh wrote:
       | This is federated video hosting services like XMPP designed for
       | federated communication infrastructure.
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       | Player use webtorrent to use BitTorrent protocol for video
       | streaming. This system gives limited control to the company or
       | individual hosting the federated server to manage videos hosted
       | on their platform only.
       | 
       | The only issue I see in this service is same faced by email and
       | XMPP servers. So hopefully the federated server is not controlled
       | by few players like happened in case of email and in spite of
       | being federated controlled by large players like google, in
       | another instance WhatsApp and google both used XMPP and removed
       | support for federation when they became sufficiently large.
        
       | FisDugthop wrote:
       | I am still worried about privacy, and it seems like the design of
       | PeerTube is no longer flexible enough to consider making the
       | desired improvements. In particular, it sounds like peers can
       | still know which videos somebody has requested.
        
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