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		upupandup on July 22, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Let's improve PeerTube – Help us define PeerTube's... > Servers and other fixed costs can be handled by donations or selling merch. IF this was true we would already have a Youtube competitor. We don't.

vorpalhex on July 23, 2022 [–]

You are misunderstanding peertube. It's not "Youtube but self hosted". It is peer to peer bittorrent distributed streams. You still need seeds but bandwidth is reduced.

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