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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

You're missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

Bandwidth is just not really that big of an issue on PeerTube.

Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you're wrong.

[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 1 points 9 months ago

You’re missing the point: if I want to contribute bandwidth, I need to host an instance or watch the exact same video somebody else is watching.

That's why I said we can hope they expand on the remote runners, so that people can easily install a runner that could share bandwidth. Just like now we have runners, that are very easy to install, that can transcode videos.

Finding a nice video on some random instance but being unable to watch it because it can only provide 100KB/s or worse says you’re wrong.

Bandwidth is not one of the bigger issues with PeerTube and that's coming from someone who hosts a PeerTube instance. Obviously you will have issues, if you host PeerTube on a slow internet connection.