PeerTube YouTube Alternative

Comments primarily recommend or compare PeerTube as a decentralized, federated, self-hostable video hosting platform to YouTube alternatives, questioning why not use it instead.

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Sample Comments

bobajeff Nov 19, 2020 View on HN

Maybe they could use a Peertube instance or LBRY.

butz Feb 22, 2020 View on HN

Is moving to PeerTube a viable alternative?

noicebrewery Jan 20, 2020 View on HN

How is this better than PeerTube?

the_biot Jun 13, 2024 View on HN

That's literally PeerTube you're describing.https://joinpeertube.org/

longitudinal93 Jul 30, 2024 View on HN

There's Peertubehttps://joinpeertube.org/

vagab0nd Jul 24, 2018 View on HN

Looks like the videos were taken down. This would be a perfect use case for peertube.

remram Jan 9, 2021 View on HN

If you don't mind me asking, what is the value-add compared to PeerTube? (seems to be the popular option right now)

joelthelion Jul 5, 2019 View on HN

This would be a great use case for PeerTube, no?

crtasm Oct 26, 2025 View on HN

Peertube exists, anyone could run (or pay a host to run) a server in the network

bluGill Nov 5, 2023 View on HN

You should use peertube instead. Saddly there isn't much content there, but try to look there first and reward those who post there with your eyeballs.