PeerTube 6.2 Is Out

PeerTube is a decentralized and federated alternative to YouTube. The goal of PeerTube is not to replace YouTube but to offer a viable alternative using the strength of ActivityPub and P2P protocols.

Being built on ActivityPub means PeerTube is able to be part of a bigger social network, the Fediverse (the Federated Universe). On the other hand, P2P technologies help PeerTube to solve the issue of money, inbound with all streaming platform : With PeerTube, you don't need to have a lot of bandwidth available on your server to host a PeerTube platform because all users (which didn't disable the feature) watching a video on PeerTube will be able to share this same video to other viewers.

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. If after that you want to try to use PeerTube as a content creator, you can try to find a platform available there to register or host yourself your own PeerTube platform on your own server.

The development of PeerTube is actually sponsored by Framasoft (https://framasoft.org), a french non-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipating digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

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

If you want to contribute to PeerTube, feel free to:

    * report bugs and give your feedback on Github or on our forums (https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/)

    * submit your brillant ideas on our Feedback platform (https://ideas.joinpeertube.org/)

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

    * Make a donation to help to pay bills inbound in the development of PeerTube (https://support.framasoft.org)

I'm particularly excited about the new house keeping scripts in this release. Peertube especially when using object storage has a tendency to create "zombie" files where it'll forget they exist. This usually happens when a transcoding job fails or when you force re-transcode a video. Before this release there wasn't any way to go look for those files and delete them but now you can.

If you're curious about Peertube. A friend and I have created an hosting service for fediverse applications. We provide fully managed hosting for Peertube which you can try free for 7 days. Check it out here https://fedihost.co

Love that they got this integrated with Whisper for subtitles!