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1. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 12:30:05 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅
   Does PeerTube support a mode where an instance could have e.g. a catalog of all the fosdem videos without actually hosting any of them and just pointing to video.fosdem.org and mirrors as web seeds?
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 13:33:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     @sj_zero Yes, but the first person to create the entry will do so by uploading the video to their instance.
   • sj_zero (sj_zero@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Feb-2022 13:33:12 UTC sj_zero

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     @clacke that's how federation on peertube works. Most of the videos I watch on my own instance come from another instance altogether.
   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 11:54:13 UTC Sean Tilley

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     @clacke it's possible for an instance admin to follow another instance. This effectively pools all of the Public videos for the followed instance into the index of the Follower instance.
     
     4.1.0 also provides a search filter that can show you videos from a specific instance.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 11:54:13 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sean Tilley
     @sean What I'm saying is I want a PeerTube instance that scans video.fosdem.org, builds an index of it and hosts none of the actual video streams.
   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 13:30:36 UTC Sean Tilley

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     @clacke Oh, I see. I was under the impression the link you were pointing to was a PeerTube instance itself. 🤔

     If it was hosted on its own instance, any instance that followed it would add records from its video catalogue with the metadata into the following instance’s own database, allowing that media to show up in search and be streamed easily.

     But, if there’s no instance to follow… It might be possible to write a bot that hooks into the PeerTube API, and points new video entries in the catalogue to existing file URLs, but it’s probably not super optimized for how PeerTube works…

   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 13:30:36 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sean Tilley
     @sean Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, taking these massive pycon, debconf, fosdem, LCA archives and mirrors and just giving them a nice frontend that allows discussion without having to add terabytes of disk when the videos already have a sponsor model that allows for hosting the streams.
     
     But I'll have to look closer at how peertube works or can be modified to work to see how someone would go about it.
     
     There's also the part about scraping the descriptions for all these presentations and getting that into the posts.
   • Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 16:30:20 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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     • Sean Tilley
     @sean It would be great if they did, I'm just not counting on it.
   • Sean Tilley (sean@social.deadsuperhero.com)'s status on Monday, 28-Feb-2022 16:30:21 UTC Sean Tilley

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     @clacke It might be easier to get organizations to host their talks on conf.tube and maybe throw a few bucks behind it.
     
     I know it's not quite what you're after, but a dedicated community instance can be quite good for a demographic that wants to easily share their conference talk videos across the network.