Comment on Is PeerTube dead or is discoverability bad?
Kichae@lemmy.ca 2 days agoIt’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.
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?
Images* are linked, text is copied
See: szmer.info/post/5936505 lemmy.world/post/25244041
*thumbnails are also copied
meldrik@lemmy.wtf 2 days ago
That is not true, at all.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s literally what federation is.
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.