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Originally Posted by TFCash
I guess you don't understand how a peer-to-peer network operates, there would be lot's of redundancy in the files that are shared across your "federation" so you wouldn't have access to 4TB and there still has to be 50 people spending $20, which works out to $1000 a month on my calculator.
If I wanted 4TB of drive space, and 150TB of data, I can get that on OVH for $60.
Again the whole idea behind this is to get rid of advertising, and why would we want to do that anyway ???
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I don't think you understand how it works. Files are not replicated across every instance of PeerTube. This means that 50 sites can each have 100 files and if each of those sites is in a federation then when you visit any of those 50 sites you have access to 5000 videos that you can view, search and so on. When someone selects a video to view it is initially streamed from the server hosting the video and only when more than one person views it does the p2p aspect kick in.
As for getting rid of advertising, that's not correct. Any PeerTube site can have ads, however many choose not to. Some federations allow ads on sites they connect to, some federations don't. Whether you run ads on your own PeerTube instance is entirely up to you.
From the perspective of users of these sites, not being bombarded with popups, popunders, crypto miners, tricky javascript etc is appealing. Big tube sites like YouTube and Pornhub don't act purely for the benefit of content creators. Sure there may be banners and links to a sponsor site who has upload trailers, but then there's a dozen other ads for everything from fake penis pills to dodgy dating sites. So the only party that really benefits is the tube site, the users get screwed over with over the top, intrusive advertising and the content creators supply a content chain that they see little benefit from when they have to compete with the other ads for a surfers money.
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Originally Posted by The Porn Nerd
To me, the appealing idea would be an ad-free tube network that would serve mostly to push joins to paysites. Or dating, cams, etc. Not ADS but send the traffic (via video views) to the landing pages. Don't know if that would work well tho. LOL
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It would and does work, content creators on PeerTube are doing exactly this. They upload a trailer and link to their site. Or they upload a video and link to their Patreon. It's working out very well for some content creators in France, from where PeerTube originated. However PeerTube sites are popping up every day now, federations are growing both public and private ones.