Ich bin ja neu im Instanz-Spiel, aber was ich so in den Konfigurationsdateien gesehen habe, graut es mir schon etwas vorm Hochdatum auf 20.x - meine da gelesen zu haben, dass sich Standards ändern sollen.

While this is very funny, and definitely representative of a sort of ignorance/arrogance commonly found in ideologues - I recently learned that most people talking about the effect have, in fact, been Dunning-Krugering themselves.

Insightful video on the topic.

What most people expect the effect to look like:

What the actual results were:

Ah, so was in der Art hatte ich mir gedacht - wobei ich schon in Sorge war, dass er die Tasse am Ende bei irgendeiner Konferenz in dem Bild als Beweis für irgendwie eine Art zentraler Antifa GmbH benutzen würde, die mit Staatsgeldern diese Tassen produziere. Mittlerweile kann man sich ja nicht mehr sicher sein.

See my comment to kayzeekayzee, I don’t think local options exist - but I am also relatively new myself - so maybe someone else knows something.

But if you have those 10TB somewhere you can put behind a domain name and server installation - This is the official documentation.

Of note: The part in the config file (usually /var/www/peertube/config/production.yaml) looks like this (my current config as an example)

redundancy:
  videos:
    check_interval: '15 minutes' # How often you want to check new videos to cache
    strategies: # Just uncomment strategies you want
      -
        size: '50GB'
        # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
        min_lifetime: '48 hours'
        strategy: 'most-views' # Cache videos that have the most views
      -
        size: '150GB'
        # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
        min_lifetime: '48 hours'
        strategy: 'trending' # Cache trending videos
      -
        size: '100GB'
        # Minimum time the video must remain in the cache. Only accept values > 10 hours (to not overload remote instances)
        min_lifetime: '48 hours'
        strategy: 'recently-added' # Cache recently added videos
        min_views: 10 # Having at least x views

As far as I know, no options exist for something like a local PeerTube instance without a proper server, without also having a domain name, so doing it locally is a bit complicated.

I’d guess the closest would be to have tabs open with videos you want to mirror, so you are a peer via webtorrent for those, but that is clunky, and I am unsure how well it would even work without having the tabs active.

But I am relatively new to this as well, so maybe someone else has some info I am lacking right now.

Basically, you can set up your PeerTube server to mirror videos from your federated network according to algorithms (and also by adding videos manually).

PeerTube uses the WebTorrent protocol, so that a video that gets super popular isn’t as likely to crash the server it’s on or essentially DDOS it. In this case, my server has a significant portion of HDD space set aside for some servers I trust to have quality content, so that recent videos, trending videos and their overall most watched videos are mirrored by mine (rotating them in and out automatically). The server will be a peer seeding the video while it is watched anywhere, thus reducing the load on the original server, and making the video more resilient against uptime failure of the original server.

Yeah, his videos and articles are usually insightful - but his thumbnails are often weirdly bad. For example: for the one about “Does Mozilla get USAID taxpayer money?” (Actually, not really), he unfortunately used the headlines of the article he was criticising, making it seem his video would argue the same point as the (false) article did.

Of course, he isn’t likely - he loved it, when it was uncertainty and confusion for Ukraine, because what he wants out of a deal is a way to position Russia to eventually still eliminate an independent Ukraine altogether. Now that it’s flip-flopping again, and the uncertainty produced by the administration in the US isn’t completely in his favour any more, there’s no reason for them to entertain it at all.

Oof, that is really unfortunate behaviour there. I know moderating can be tough and sometimes emotionally charged, but this really seems like overstepping their boundaries to the detriment of the community. Especially considering I know how much work you have been and are doing for fediverse growth and content.

Also, might be interesting to crosspost this to [email protected] - although the community there can sometimes flipflop from actually interesting and insightful to slightly toxic.

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