Doing my own research before asking here, I understand that PeerTube works similar but not the same as torrent protocol works and it seems to me that it uses the WebTorrent protocol, that means that I “share” fragments of the video I watch, and that the server although not behaving as a peer, provides the information to other servers.

Sincerely, even doing this research, I had many questions…

  • What happens if a video has no peers? Is it simply unplayable?

  • If a video has few peers, will only a part of it be playable?

  • To share fragments of a video I need to be consciously in the video? I mean, in a torrent program I open it in the background and forget about it, but in the case of PeerTube there is no desktop program as such to share in the background the videos I have already watched.

  • If I as a user share a video, and after a while I turn off my PC and I was the only one who saw it, no one else will be able to play the video until I turn on the PC?

  • This will sound stupid, but why do servers have a storage limit per user if the server as such does not share fragments of it?

Thanks and apologies for the stupid questions.

  • PolarShred@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I think that’s a pretty good overview. It’s too bad you had to rewrite that entire comment because you accidentally deleted the first draft. What a shame that some parts are probably worse off because you didn’t remember all that you wrote. The mental toll that would take must have been immense. Hope you’re doing ok