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[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Peertube is like an alternative site to youtube. It’s a different place to post your video (you can’t use it to watch YouTube videos to my knowledge)

This is mostly right, I think I'd only clarify that it's not a singular site, much like Lemmy isn't, as instead it's more site software to spin up a YouTube-like video hosting site. Also you're right that you can't use it to watch videos as you might via Piped/Invidious, unless the creator has also posted their video to a PeerTube site/instance.

Last little point that's not super important to know for regular folks is that it's not using bittorrent for helping distribute video loads, it's WebRTC. Still peer to peer, just a different approach to it.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Sorry you're right, site isn't the right word but I hoped the reference to lemmy would explain it.

In regards to WebRTC, isn't it bittorrent over WebRTC which allows bittorrent in a browser?

This says:

PeerTube uses the BitTorrent protocol to share bandwidth between users by default to help lower the load on the server

[–] ElectroVagrant@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Ah...Yeah, that's what I get for skimming. Tbh it's a little confusing, but thankfully it's not stuff viewers need to know necessarily.