• explodicle@local106.com
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    1 year ago

    Which description? That Wikipedia article says “The aim is to provide an alternative to centralized platforms such as YouTube, Vimeo, and Dailymotion.”

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      1 year ago

      The difference to YouTube is that it’s not intended to create a huge platform centralizing videos from the whole world on a single server farm (which is horribly expensive).

      From their website. It’s a very different system, and also not funded by advertisers, which means someone else has to pay the bills.

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        1 year ago

        Is PeerTube’s purpose to replace YouTube?

        We can answer with certainty: no!

        The ambition remains to be a free and decentralized alternative: the goal of an alternative is not to replace, but to propose something else, with different values, in parallel to what already exists.

        They’re saying they’re not a “replacement” because it’s a decentralized alternative to something centralized. Not because it can’t serve the same needs for technical or economic reasons.