There was a fuss that #peertube is bad, because users need to use #VPN to have some privacy and they cost money. Bandwidth costs money too and most small organizations can't afford running a video streaming service. No matter how hard they want. Most people can afford a cheap VPN though. There's even free VPN in Opera browser. Actually, maybe the PeerTube model is the best model we may get. People are not eager to donate money. Moving the costs on their side may be the only viable solution.
@pskosinski
> You said: « maybe the peertube model is the best model we may get ». My answer is: Probably not.
Peertube is cool, i like it. Plus, it’s a french project, i’m proud of it. But there’s alternatives. A distributed video sharing platform don’t have to use torrents. There is IPFS for example or other more privacy focused p2p protocols.
Besides, why giving money to a third actor (vpn providers) when you can give money to the platform directly ? Peertube is a tool among many others...
@Roland just note that IPFS provides no better privacy than plain torrents. The same can be said of Dat btw.
@pskosinski
@Roland > Besides, why giving money to a third actor (vpn providers) when you can give money to the platform directly ?
One can but barely anyone does give money directly to the platform. And some VPN providers support open source projects, e.g. Private Internet Access. The idea is to let platforms work without the need of constantly seeking financial support by moving costs to users, if they want to improve their privacy, and most people just don't care anyway.
@Roland They are completely fine with Facebook tracking their every move, so won't mind publicly available list of IPs. ;-)
@pskosinski If that makes than what's about youtube ; o dont fool ourselfs, not everyone need to be super private, we're not in China, lot of people just want to use Internet, really, and it's up to us to teach why decentralization is important, which is provided by the means of PeerTube etc.
Of course, that won't work when 99% of people don't give a shit about censorship, monopolies and privacy.