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  • Then you might as well just host your own PeerTube instance, which is also something I would encourage big content creators to do. Problem is, you would have to be a bit tech savvy to install and run PeerTube.

    The standalone app you talk about probably doesn’t work in practice. What happens when the user shuts down their computer? The videos become unavailable. Then what?

    What could work is a 2-in-1 solution, where a content creators video backup also functions as a peertube instance.

    Content creators back up their videos, so why not make the videos available for watching, from the same storage?


  • PeerTube already have tools that can contribute to the network of instances.

    You have “remote runners” which can very easily be set up, which can off-load transcoding of videos and live streams, as well as some other tasks like subtitle generation and thumbnails.

    You can also enable redundancy on an instance, which will download videos from other instances and then function as a peer and temporary backup of the video, in case the instance is down.

    What I would like to see next, is an easily installable client that will allow users to function as a peer for videos.

    The biggest issue however, is storage. Not sure how that can be solved.