Peertube.social will shut down in three months, due to inactivity and loss of interest by the administration team. You have until 15/10/2021 to download your videos and migrate your channels.

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[–]solder0 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

This shouldn't matter that much though, right? It's all federated so all I need is the frontend software and a host server.

[–]JasonCarswell 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I wonder how much storage it would take to mirror it all and/or if they can bundle and torrent it or share it via IPFS too.

[–]thefirststone 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

There's no underlying P2P storage mechanism in PeerTube. Every site hosts their own videos. Their site gives an overview when you scroll down: note the part under the heading "About peer-to-peer broadcasting and watching" which describes a Bitchute-style P2P live swarm of viewers that only applies to videos being watched. No video replication.

Peertube.social's about page shows how much they're hosting locally: 7823 videos comprising 1649.3 GB. I doubt that's archivable at this point. Maybe they'd make a copy for somebody who sends them a disk, but it's really up to the uploader to care for their content.

The point of PeerTube is that we don't have to rely on the big sites to maintain open-access video hosts. You can spin up your own node and only pay for your own bandwidth, which is cheaper than ever.