Usually it shows around 1-2 peers on the player when I watch videos on PeerTube. I just watched a video that had up to 20 peers.
Here are the stats
Total downloaded: 1.5 GB
* From servers: 149 MB
* From peers: 1.3 GB
Total uploaded: 618 MB
I left the video open while writing this text an now I uploaded a total of 1.0 GB.
Nice to see PeerTube in action in a real peer to peer way.
Oh wow I did not realise peertube was like torrenting almost! That is so cool :)
Peer to peer, hence the name. :)
Considering how often people try to retort “BuT WhAt aBoUt tHe bAnDwIdTh cOsTs” whenever it’s mentioned as a YouTube alternative, it seems like almost nobody realizes that.
Yeah. Because if it was hosted the same way lemmy is (with storage of posts across all servers once they federate) it would be a storage and bandwidth nightmare.
IIRC, they used some torrent codebase. It’s like a closed tracker.
In the blog post for PeerTube v6, it says:
So, I guess, they use a more custom implementation now…
TIL, thanks!