Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?

• cley_faye@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Peer to peer viewing can only go so far. Some people, when they put a video out, get hundred of thousands of view in the span of a few minutes. This works relatively well on youtube, with a very large CDN (and probably some heuristics for big accounts). It is enough to hinder “smaller” platforms like dailymotion. It would just be a terrible experience on peertube as it is now, unless the creator preemptively mirrored it in many, many places beforehand.

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  • descartador@lemmy.eco.br ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Maybe the peer to peer aspect of it could sustain big amounts of viewers

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    • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Not really, at least not when viewers all flood in once the video is out.

      In this situation, everyone needs a file, but barely anyone can share it, leading to terrible bandwidth.

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