YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe

I really wish PeerTube would take off, or any other alternative.

I wish PeerTube worked. For a while I tried just leaving in running on the theory that it might help out, but it didn’t seem to do anything. Not sure if I’m doing it wrong?

What did you want it to do?

Did you set up a node? Did you promote it & grow a user base? Federate?

I wanted it to not be dog slow, because every one I tried spent all its time buffering. I’m not really sure how the architecture of it works but it seemed to suggest some kind of p2p thing so thought that leaving the window open might seed it? But either it didn’t or just nobody was interested.

you are not seeding by just leaving the window open on any peertube page. you are only seeding the specific video you have opened, if you have opened one, and probably not the complete video just the last segments you still have cached. this p2p sharing is mostly for when a certain video gets popular, to help with peek load, and for live streams. if the video was buffering for a long time it’s probably because the server did not have enough upload bandwidth, and no other viewer had the video segments.

there is another load balancing system that peertube supports, they can clone videos fromneach other and help serving them: docs.joinpeertube.org/admin/following-instances#p…

don’t know why you got downvoted, this is 100% truth

It’s the truth but it also is fantastic proof why the entire concept is doa. The fact this needs explaining at all or is even a problem. Means it’s a non viable system.

Even technical users aren’t going to want to have to fiddle and tinker and read documentation for base entertainment.

It either works or it’s worthless. That’s the bar you have to pass for basic entertainment.