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and it also prevents decentralized users from competing
It doesn’t have to. PT is just using webtorrent. Make a desktop client that links into existing PT instances for discovery and indexing, but have the DHT pull the files right off the person’s home box. Every content creator makes a buddy, they pin each other’s content. Every content creator stores their own stuff + 1 person.
Everyone doesn’t have to host their own instance.
They don’t, but how long do you think a free instance is going to last when it starts seeing serious volume. Video storage in the cloud is expensive AF.
With good content? That’s a hard find :)
Plenty without NSFW though
I frequent https://v.basspistol.org/ but they’re mostly music
do keep in mind you can also use their filters
like these on https://vid.freedif.org/
Discovery is a major hurdle. There are plenty of instances that don’t have NSFW you should poke around to find something suitable.
Mainly storage. The only reason these free hosted sites can stand up is because they have low traffic. If 0.01% of YouTubers started dumping all their video over there, they’d quickly run the free services out of town.
Realistically, If it were easy enough for everyone to host locally (torrent style) and people paired up with hosting partners for backups, peertube could be an amazing Youtube alternative.
Peertube is f****** amazing, But your average windows user isn’t going to be able to manage the hosting. And your average ISP blocks standard hosting ports. Then it also requires the users to manage their own monetization.
It’s not undoable but it is kind of a steep slope.
When they killed off the app I was using, I refused to install their BS.
Web only, especially on my phone was enough to make me stop.
Now I only end up there through search results and that’s only when there’s no other option.
SFTP / SSH encryption in transit is perfectly safe.
The seed box itself will probably have logs on it that you accessed it from your home IP
The seed box hosting provider might have logs that you’re connecting to them from your home.
Your ISP can see that you accessed a box on a hosting provider with an encrypted protocol.
As long as you’re not hosting anything so serious that a state agency will come in raid the hosting provider break into the box and grab the content and logs, you really have nothing to worry about.