Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?

• Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who said YOU could say words???

  revokes your right to comment

  We’ll be having none of that interaction, and social stuff here!!!

  …why isn’t peertube taking off???

  (/joke)

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• Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’s not unsocial. It’s just not mirroring multi-gigabyte files by default. It’s perfectly social if you use the website.

  Everyone has to stop conflating the technology with the network. Lemmy is a website engine. PeerTube is a website engine. The ability to mirror content is not inherent to running a Lemmy- or PeerTube-based website. The network is not the primary object here.

  It is a construct that arrises from content-mirroring.

  Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view. If you’re federating videos, you’re letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

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  • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Remember, federation is *copying*, not creating some kind of remote view. If you’re federating videos, you’re letting other websites consume terabytes of your storage space amd bandwidth.

    That is not true, at all.

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    • Kichae@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It’s literally what federation is.

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      • meldrik@lemmy.wtf ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Yes, video is streamed directly from its home server. There is a an option to mirror videos, so that your server will work as a seed, helping with bandwidth.

        Images on Lemmy is also loaded from its home server, but there is a cache.

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  • commander@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Remember, federation is copying, not creating some kind of remote view.

    Is this true? It’s my understanding that, lemmy for example, has the protocol in place for servers to communicate their content with each other, but each server’s content is hosted separately.

    Are you saying all federated services copy each other’s data instead of only linking to it?

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    • Ludrol@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Images* are linked, text is copied

      See: szmer.info/post/5936505 lemmy.world/post/25244041

      *thumbnails are also copied

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