Does every PeerTube instance store all other instances’ content metadata (title, description, comments)? Would federating virtually with YouTube (through a YouTube frontend like Piped) give a too high ammount of data to store on other instances?

  • helenslunch@feddit.nl
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    7 months ago

    You don’t need to do that. PeerTube already has the ability to mirror YouTube channels, and yes, it would be far too much data. But you can do a personal backup of YT channels on your storage if ya really want to.

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipOP
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      7 months ago

      It would have been great to view and comment YouTube content with a PeerTube account. But it would needs a different approach on storing other instances metadata.

  • FippleStone@aussie.zone
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    7 months ago

    As of June 2022, more than 500 hours of video were uploaded to YouTube every minute. If that video is stored at 6Mb/s, a conservative estimate, that equates to about 10TB a minute. Obviously you wouldn’t want everything, but it’s still way more than the peertube network could handle in it’s current form I’m sure. I cannot fathom the amount of data that Big Datatm handles, the fact that most of the services are free makes me highly suspicious.