• dedale@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
    I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

    • nuzzlerat@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I had a feeling they might. It’s likely the only way to make it possible but it is not without faults either.

      Thanks for the info, I’ll look into it more!

    • Timwi@kbin.social
      2·
      1 year ago

      BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?