Yes. You can mirror videos from other instances. This also work as a kind of redundancy, if the PeerTube instance with the original video is down.

PeerTube is a video sharing platform, just like YouTube or Vimeo. Videos you watch on PeerTube is hosted on a PeerTube instance.

You are right, but the users also need to be watching the video at the same resolution. A PeerTube instance can also function as a peer.

If multiple people are watching the same video, at the same resolution, it uses WebRTC (HLS P2P) to share data between them, saving bandwidth from the PeerTube instance.

A PeerTube instance can also function as a peer (seed) for another PeerTube instance.

Wouldn’t you need to use PeerTube to discover and search for content? So you have would to go back and forth between PeerTube and Mastodon.

So obviously, if you just want to consume videos, it’s the best experience to use PeerTube.

What do you mean? It’s a video made by The Linux Experiment, where he talks about the news.

But if you just want to use PeerTube, using Mastodon just introduces extra steps.

Sure, if you have or want to use Mastodon.

You could simply put the storage quota at 0 and the user wont be able to upload anything. Then the admin can give a quota to the user later.

You can still have open registrations, but not allow uploads. Most people don’t have stuff to upload, but just need an instance with the most reach and a place to keep track of content.

Lenovo has become utter crap. At work, I’m replacing our Lenovo’s with the Framework 13

Doesn’t work with all yet though. At least not on iOS 😭

Interesting. I’ve been thinking about something like this for instances that use PeerTube. People could donate storage to PeerTube instances.

The blocking has nothing to do with free speech.

You can create an account on whatever Lemmy provider you want.

Working with you UX experts? You mean like hire them? With what money?

Otherwise, the UX experts need to step up and volunteer their services, just like programmers do when they create FOSS.

What problem does Peertube solve beyond not being Youtube?

Content creators can be in total control of their content and the platform, while still being able to reach the wider audience on the Fediverse.

There’s also features such as being able to replace an already uploaded video and for some, they would be happy not having to play the “algorithm game”.

You can do things because you want to make a difference. A good difference. Not everything has to have an ulterior motive.

We just can’t have nice things…

I use Linux Mint and I disabled it because it was blocking the nvidia driver from initiating. I’m sure I could fix it, but can’t be arsed to.