- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.wtf/post/15732861
First of all, let me apologize to those people who was affected when PeerTube.wtf initially went down.
I’ve been working this past month on building and setting up a fresh version of PeerTube.wtf and this time, I won’t be relying on decentralized storage 🙃 🙃 🙃
I’ve been reading a couple of threads on Lemmy, to better understand what people want expect to be able to do on a PeerTube server, so here goes:
PeerTube.wtf is a platform for general use. Every topic is welcome.
The Global Search Index is enabled. This means that the search bar will show results from almost 900 PeerTube servers.
Remote URI/handle search is enabled. This means, if you know the URL/handle of a channel, that’s not part of the Global Search Index, you can still find it via the search bar and subscribe to the channel.
The Public Index is enabled. This means that PeerTube.wtf will federate with almost a 1000 PeerTube servers.
Audio-only, 360p, 720p, 1080p and 1440p is enabled. This means that videos uploaded, is provided in these resolutions.
Video transcription is enabled. Will Automatically create subtitles for uploaded/imported VOD videos.
Live streaming is enabled. Streams are transcoded in 720p and 1080p at 60 FPS.
A user has 100GB of storage. This is obviously not sustainable, but is subject to change.
FAQ
.wtf?
Yea, it stands for “What The Fediverse”. What else could it possibly stand for, that sound as cool?
Where is the server hosted?
It’s hosted in Denmark, at my residence. I have 100% ownership and control over it.
What’s your specs, bro? The server is assembled inside an Inter-Tech 2U-2404S, with a:
- AMD Ryzen 3 1200 @ 4 cores
- 16GB of RAM
- nVidia Quadro P600 (hardware transcoding)
- 2x120GB SSDs in raid 1 for OS
- 2x4TB HDDs in raid 1 for the video storage
4TB of storage ain’t much
That’s true, but I will be upgrading the disks eventually.
Why no 4K??
4K takes a lot of space and the majority of users don’t have a 4K monitor. In the future, it might change.
I’ve probably forgotten something, but yea… Enjoy.
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Me: “Oh no, that wtf means it’s gonna be a LiveLeak site isn’t it?”
platform for general use
Me: “Ah, so maybe not so bad then.”
Every topic is welcome.
Me: “… and yet…”
Seriously though, I’m all for the Fediverse in all its many forms, and without people like you it wouldn’t exist. Thank you.
I should maybe have added an asterisk to that “Every topic is welcome” 😅
That would be wise.
How will you monetize?
By working at my day job.
That doesn’t sound self sustaining, but thanks for replying
Monetization does not align with the principles of the Fediverse imho. Donations can help, but I don’t believe that’s sustainable either. I can do this because I have the time and the money. I wouldn’t recommend doing this, if you had to rely on donations or monetization.
I would think many servers that accept donations don’t rely on them. But taking donations while it is optional can stave off the time when donations would be necessary.
Monetization isnt inherently bad. Even ads can be dome in a way that does not violate user’s privacy
corporate sponsors with branding could be cool, but video ads, banner ads, clickable stuff I dont want to see and will always block,hope any instance blocks ads that try to creep into the fediverse
Eh always iffy on putting ads on other ppls content (thats all of the internet lol), at least the beauty of the fediverse is they can always leave and host it themselves. I’m sure ads could be done right but I’ve yet to see it.
People will say you cant expect ppl to do stuff for fre but thy always do they just get overshadowed by ppl making ad money spending money on marketing
What kind of upload bandwidth do you have?
1000/1000 Mbps fiber.
Would be nice if you could share sometime in the future how bandwidth heavy Peertube is for your setup.
I’ll let you know 😄
Have you enabled the XMPP based live-stream chat addon?
Yes. If you scroll down to the bottom of this page, you can see all the plugins enabled.
Cool. Can you configure it so that one can easily connect with an external Matterbridge to it?
I’ll look into it.
for general use
So every third video is going to be a beheading or medical gore?
It just means the server doesn’t have a general theme or topic. No gore.
Does the gTLD make you think otherwise? 😅
Lol
Usually when a server allows anything, it collects the things other systems block.
“general use” =/= “allows everything”
That bullet point had two sentences.
“Every topic” doesn’t necessarily literally mean like, illegal stuff
I checked and it doesn’t seem to be
This is great news.
Are the videos that were at https://peertube.wtf/c/startgametrailers lost forever? It’s no big deal, but I’ll delete 'em from https://piefed.social/c/startgametrailers@peertube.wtf if they are. Thanks.
I’ve recreated the channel, but all the videos from before is sadly lost.
Out of curiosity: What kind of decentralized storage has been used before?
I used Sia. It works okay, just not for video :D
I have been considering to use this: https://garagehq.deuxfleurs.fr/documentation/connect/apps/#peertube
Might make it easier to use an external server as a kind of CDN as well.
