• Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    I’m unique in this, but I firmly believe video creators should just make torrents, and post links to them from whatever site / forum they choose.

    Torrents have already solved the big static data problem, we only need a place (like here), where people can post links.

    • Klaymore@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      I believe Peertube has support for webtorrent streaming so viewers upload the video to other viewers as well.

      • Dessalines@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        Ya, but unfortunately only a tiny minority of seeders use webtorrents, and peertube still has to store every video locally. Because of that, peertube instances find that they can’t last long, because of the huge disk space required.

    • Undearius@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      I was just thinking about this. The content creators already have the original quality copy stored on their machines.