The difficulties we are having with PeerTube

[Paul Brown]

On sábado, 30 de enero de 2021 22:14:04 (CET) Ben Cooksley wrote:
>> - We will be able to reach more people: Posting to an instance connected
>> to
>> other instances will allow us to reach a wider audience.

> Has this federation been proven to work reliably and be effective?

Yeah. The stuff we posted on the instance we picked (the one that went away), 
was reliably available through other instances in minutes. Overall, the p2p 
sharing thing seems to work really well on PeerTube.

> This may seem like an unusual question, but given how much trouble Matrix
> causes I do have to ask.

Ah! I was not aware. I do not venture much out of our the Promo channel, to be 
honest.

>> - Take advantage of peer-to-peer broadcasting: this may be a minor side
>> effect
>> of the one above, but all connected instances share the bandwidth of the
>> videos they share. I do not see any of our videos going super-viral to the
>> point of becoming a problem for our bandwidth, but, hey...
>>

>Bandwidth isn't an issue, the CDN is provided by CDN77 - who have quite a
> bit of bandwidth at their disposal.

> Failing that we can always leverage download.kde.org or files.kde.org
> (which are both guaranteed to be HTTPS) which also have quite a bit of
> bandwidth too.

Yeah. I imagined this would be an advantage that wouldn't help us much.

>> And talking of sharing...
>>
>> - We will be able to collect automatically related content, thus drawing
>> more
>> viewers to our own. You can choose which instances to follow, thus leaving
>> out
>> the crazies and irrelevant. You can also filter the videos themselves.
>> Having a
>> variety of related videos (reviews, demos, tutorials, ...)  from third
>> parties
>> will attract people to our instance and help them discover our own videos.
>

> Has the Mastodon universe reached the critical mass where these benefits
> are tangible?

The last I read Mastodon was rapidly growing. It is working for us too, as we 
are approaching 6000 followers, some of which are not bots! 😜 Seriously 
though, most of them aren't, and we add slightly over a 100 followers a month.

Cheers

Paul
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