hendrik

On most instances it gets re-encoded anyways.

Well. Lots of it are technical details. The protocol has changed a bit but the way it works is as follows: The server stores the video. It delivers it via HTTP protocol to the viewer. If multiple people watch it simultameously (have the same video opened in their browsers) they help redistributing fragments to each other. This takes some load from the server. Coordination also happens via the server.

If there are no peers, you get the video delivered by the server. This happens most of the times anyways. It may stutter or take some time to load if the server is too busy.

Everything is watchable as long as the server is online. If the fragment isn't offered by someone else, it's just fetched from the server. If the server goes offline, the page won't load anymore and the video is gone. this rarely happens or only for maintenance.

If you close your browser window or click on another video, you leave the swarm and stop redistributing that video.

The videos are stored by the servers. And people overestimate how much the peer2peer approach works. In reality it's easily >90% delivered the traditional way by the server to the viewer.

lol. i watched way too much star trek when i was a kid. i would consider myself as someone who dislikes capitalism. but that's my private thing. i like having money available to buy food, eat nice noodles or go on vacation every now and then. but i wouldn't be sad if that somehow worked without the concept of money or some of the big companies.

i like this platform. i'm fine, thanks for asking.

I'm not a hardcore capitalist. Also i can't watch all the ads the corporations would like to feed me every day. So i'm fine with using an adblocker. Don't give stuff out for free on the internet if you don't like this. But since you ask: I really don't like that strategy to commercialize everything, to finance everything by selling ads and user data...

What alternatives?

Maybe ask this question again if there actually is something better. But i'd agree. The UI should be accessible for people with disability. But maybe we need to work on lemmy and make that possible instead of waiting for something else to come along.

Yes. And i'm always stunned by how many people buy loads of bottled water at the Getränkemarkt. Just drink it from the tap or get one of those machines that make sparkling water if you like that?! There is no chlorine in ordinary german water and it tastes just fine.

I'm not sure they are. I bet lots of them use Linux servers, Solr, several open source databases and so on. I think it's mostly the small and medium companies who are afraid of missing support and stuff.

The big companies just don't like selling open source to their customers. Or getting them too close to the concept of it.

Don't start with the most complicated distro and then fail.

Ähm, man trifft überall Deutsche. Die lungern überall herum. Im RL in anderen Ländern auch. Trifft man natürlich im Urlaub im hinterletzten Kuhdorf auf einem anderen Kontinent ein paar Menschen mit ordentlichem fränkischen Akzent, die schon drei Tage länger dort sind. Auf den großen Internetplatformen fühlt sich das genauso an. Aber ich zumindest habe dieses Gefühl nicht nur bei nerdigen Themen.

In der FOSS-Szene lese ich regelmäßig auch noch Französisch, und ich bin auf Peertube zumindest auf sehr viel Content in ganz vielen Sprachen gestoßen. Da z.B. auch Spanisch aus Südamerika etc. Gerade bei nicht-kommerziellen Plattformen sind die 'Algorithmen' auch oft nicht so poliert (oder überhaupt vorhanden) und schließen einen deshalb nicht so in der gleichdenkenden und in der gleichen Sprache sprechenden Blase ein. Leider spreche ich nicht besonders viele Sprachen. Neben Peertube was ich ziemlich multilingual finde, gibt/gab es auf Mastodon-kompatiblen Servern auch eine größere japanische Community.

Ich denke deutsch sprechende Menschen sind nicht wirklich überrepräsentiert. Davon gibt es nicht soo wenige und die Überlappung mit amerikanischen Plattformen, Themen und kulturellen Dingen sind groß. Den Rest bildet man sich wahrscheinlich ein. Allerdings sind z.B. Menschen aus Indien und China definitiv unterrepräsentiert. Entweder liegt das daran, dass viele Leute (in anderen Ländern) auch andere Probleme haben als viel im Internet herumzuhängen... Oder sie sind aus welchen Gründen auch immer auf anderen Plattformen unterwegs und damit zumindest für mich unsichtbar.