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Peertube's moment might come soon (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by sexy_peach@feddit.de to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605

Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.

This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.

Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn't use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.

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[–] aksdb@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Nice idea, but then everytime a video that contains anything licensed by the content mafia is uploaded (even partly), the user in question breaks that license opening themselves up to lawsuits.

In a perfect world where only properly free content is shared that model would work. But that is not how most content shared on YouTube looks like.

[–] piper11@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (5 children)

A long time ago I read a paper how to mitigate this. Without remembering the details, the idea was: 1. One peer never holds a complete file, only parts of it. 2. You need a key to find all parts of the file and get them in the right order. So Disney can only accuse you of having an incomplete and unusable part of their movie.

But copyrighted material is only one issue. Do you want your hardware to be used for distributing depictions of sexual abuse, or inciting hatred and violence? Any YouTube replacement will need strong moderation tools.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But copyrighted material is only one issue. Do you want your hardware to be used for distributing depictions of sexual abuse, or inciting hatred and violence? Any YouTube replacement will need strong moderation tools.

The concept is that will only happen if you have watched that video depicting sexual abuse, because your peertube client (the website) won't download videos you didn't watch.

[–] piper11@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

I was thinking of a hypothetical system were peers provide storage for creators independently of what they are watching (in response to 'videos take too much storage for individuals to host' comment. For peertube, you are right.

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