shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
I hope to be able to use PeerTube more in the future, but at least for now. I can’t find the kind of content that I want to watch. I would like to see stuff similar to Android Authority and 9-5 Google. Kind of like how @android@lemdro.id created their own instance and community.
The way I see it, no PeerTube instance is ever going to replace YouTube. That would just be far too much data to store and far too much bandwidth to serve. But I figure there would be topic specific instances such as Android Authority and 9-5 Google on an Android specific PeerTube instance.
Things like Sneed Mobile Tech and Tech Life Channel talking about cellular networking would be on a PeerTube instance dedicated to network technology, and so on.
Grangle1@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t think it will ever happen, but the way PeerTube as a whole would be able to rival YouTube is when looking at all instances as a whole, or a large number of federated instances sharing content. That distributes the content storage and bandwidth to help ease things up and expand the amount of content available/searchable on each instance. Kind of like how lemm.ee was made to help ease the load from other bigger instances of Lemmy such as lemmy.world. The closest a Fediverse platform has gotten to actually posing some real competition to a mainstream platform was Mastodon compared to Twitter/X, but even then it wasn’t just one instance but Mastodon as a whole.
That said, doesn’t Bluesky run on something like a federated model?
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
In theory, yes. Blue Sky does run on a federated model. In practice, no. If the Blue Sky Corporation died, it would be gone. If I remember correctly, all direct messages go through them no matter where you have your home data and such.
MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Bluesky has its own federated protocol. But you should consider the differences and improvements of the AT Protocol with ActivityPub.