• Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world
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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.