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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.