The emPeerTube strikes back. Let's decentralize YouTube ! (Brussels, FOSDEM 2018)

Presentation of PeerTube, a decentralized video streaming platform using P2P (BitTorrent) directly in the web browser and ActivityPub to federate servers. Attended audience is technical people, or decentralization enthousiasts. Today, you can't offer an real alternative to Youtube: costs for storage or Internet bandwidth would be so huge that only a few societies can afford it. Some free softwares exist to host your own videos but they don't address the money issue when too much videos are uploaded to your server, or if a video goes viral. That's where PeerTube comes up! Servers are federated with ActivityPub, a federating protocol built by the W3C (already used in Mastodon) and they send the videos to web browsers with the help of WebTorrent (Bittorrent over WebRTC). The videos are indexed accross federated servers so people can watch a video from instance A on the instance B's web interface. Here's the disk storage cost-killer: just upload your videos on your own instance or one y