Ask HN: Will there ever be fully decentralised YouTube?

I know there are DTube and Lbry. but those are neither fully decentralized nor provide enough performance.

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Popcorntime in a way was a decentralized video service.

Performance would degrade for less popular videos.

It can be solved. For example: assign peers for videos with lower number of peers instead of assigning peers for currently watching video. Please correct me, if I’m wrong.

beatgammit 7y ago ↗

Well, there's PeerTube, which is federated. I guess it's not decentralized, but there's no single central server, so it probably meets your requirements.

connorcodes 7y ago ↗

PeerTube is also special because it uses the activityPub format, so anyone on Mastodon or GNUsocial can follow somebody on PeerTube.