PeerTube v4.2 Is Out

Some IAPs are silently sabotaging p2p protocols: for instance, by default, in my country, with my IAP, only a limited range of the TCP/UDP ports is available on a dynamic IPv4 address. The p2p signaling server (tracker), won't be able to guess that the port it allocates for a peer is in this range then working.

More than a bumpy ride.

But I guess it depends heavily on the design of the p2p protocol (presuming UPNP availability).

But my IAP is providing, by default, unlimited full native IPv6.

PeerTube is a Free/Libre and federated alternative to YouTube.

PeerTube is not a platform, it's a software. As it is free-libre, anybody can copy and install it on their server. PeerTube allows the server admin to create their own video hosting & live-streams platform (an "instance"), and to synchronize it with other PeerTube instances.

It doesn't aim to replace YouTube or Twitch, but to offer a viable alternative, especially to those who don't fit in Google's or Amazon's (and any surveillance capitalism companies) model.

Technically, PeerTube uses the ActivityPub protocol so users, videos, channels, comments, etc. become part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe also used by Mastodon, the federated alternative to Twitter). PeerTube adds peer-to-peer broadcasting to good old streaming, via WebTorrents and related technologies. It makes a PeerTube server more efficient when a video or a live is getting success and lots of simultaneous views.

Those technical choices (Free-Libre Licence, ActivityPub Federation, Peer-to-Peer broadcasting) democratize video-broadcasting : now, you don't need a tech giant's money to host videos, just to take part in a vast federation of small servers that synchronize their video catalog together.

If you are curious about PeerTube, I can't recommend you enough to check the official website (https://joinpeertube.org) to learn more about the project. Then if you want to try PeerTube as a content creator, you can find an available instance there to register on, or take the plunge and host yourself your own PeerTube instance on your own server.

PeerTube development is maintained and funded by Framasoft (https://framasoft.org/), a French non-for-profit popular educational organization. Framasoft is a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible. They try to make it real trough community-driven actions both online and offline.

Framasoft is also involved in the development of Mobilizon, a decentralized and federated alternative to Facebook Events & Groups.

Even though there is only one (not even full time) paid developer on the project, the development of PeerTube is really active and you can help to contribute through different manners:

* Try it and give your feedback and/or report bugs you found on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) or on Framasoft's forum (https://framacolibri.org/).

* Help to translate the software, following the contributing guide (https://docs.joinpeertube.org/contribute-getting-started).

* Make a donation to help fund PeerTube's development. More informations about how the money will be spent can be found here (https://framasoft.org/en/#support)

* Help to develop the software on Github (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/) and Framagit (https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube/PeerTube) (a self-hosted instance of Gitlab).