this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
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JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoSelf hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
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Flax_vert@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Reminds me of the time somebody namedropped a hobbyist’s project on prime time national radio in the UK. Their project was a train timetable tracker website, made because the official resource didn’t work too well. The site went down nearly instantly 🤣