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by Animats 2829 days ago
OK. So PeerTube doesn't actually host anything, right? You need a streaming server to publish. Maybe someone will let you have space and bandwidth on theirs. PeerTube is just the lookup system. Is that right?
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Nope.

Peertube is just the software. The linked has no lookup system, it's just a site telling you about the software, linking to sourcecode & documentation, and linking to other sites that host that software.

The primary instance references on the site (i.e. the streaming server that they embed their own videos from) is https://framatube.org/

It's using torrents through WebSockets, it would be nice if the regular torrent protocol supported them. You just need to download a torrent to stream, or be one of the peers viewing to stream it to other viewers.

See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube