• Green Wizard@lemmy.zip
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    9 hours ago

    A lot of people, despite using a federated reddit alternative, will think of any reason to discourage the use of peertube I’ve noticed. It doesn’t need to REPLACE youtube, that’s basically impossible. You can use Peertube WITH YouTube. “Does it do anything different than youtube?” You can control what gets deleted and what stays up. “That’s the only thing? It needs to do more.” You can livrestream with it, and why would it need to do more than youtube? It gives you fucking CONTROL back in your hands! This is all about putting the people, back in control of the internet! The p2p aspect of peertube makes this the best competitor a community has to these giant companies with their world burning server farms. Why is this so hard for people to not be fascinated with having an option you can run with old PC hardware?

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      44 minutes ago

      hey I don’t have time to watch this so I’ll ask here since you’re arguing in favor of it: how is storage handled? is it a concern? wouldn’t any reasonable amount of storage have the risk of being almost immediately run out of space if the instance is even modestly popular?

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      5 hours ago

      It gives you fucking CONTROL back in your hands! This is all about putting the people, back in control of the internet!

      So do I2P, HyphaNet (formerly FreeNet) and ZeroNet. They’re all P2P networks and can run on old hardware, with the drawback being that you can’t access normal internet sites while connected to them

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        42 minutes ago

        that sounds less like “a drawback” and more like “fucking unusable”