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Hey, I am curious, are people working on storing fediverse data off the servers? Like using bittorent protocol or ipfs?

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[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 7 points 4 days ago

PeerTube is using Webtorrent to distribute the load to all viewers that currently watch the video. And if you host a PeerTube instance you can manually mirror videos on your instance that are hosted on other PeerTube instances.