• notarobot@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    I always thought it was a federated kind of platform. Not really p2p. Why do you need an instance if its p2p?

    • pipes@sh.itjust.works
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      1 minute ago

      It’s p2p between the watchers, but files are hosted on a server (an instance of Peertube). With just one person watching a video there’s no p2p, only server-client.