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PeerTube: a YouTube alternative you should look into

Posted: 2024-01-12

YouTube is great. It allows you to upload giant video files to its servers, and it allows anyone in the world to find and view these videos with little delay. This requires inconceivable amounts of resources to pull off in every sense: physical, mental, and financial. Google has many large data centers worldwide that all cost hundreds of millions of dollars each. It needs to design, develop, deploy, and maintain extremely complex software not just to manage all of the servers in each datacenter, but to communicate with other datacenters as well, in such a way that compromises neither speed nor data integrity, in spite of race conditions and other nasty networking realities. And this is all, of course,f ree to use. It's almost a miracle. Imagine what the world would be like if this concept didn't work out. The only thing worse than that would be if it only worked once.