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I might have got a question regarding a peertube.
Can I treat a peertube instance as a cloud storage for videos and just dump content there and remove lically, or does the copy on my local storage have to be alive as a first seed for whole traffic around specific video to get bootstrapped?
Umm... I don't have much experience of torrents but my understanding is video files are stored there locally (like on cloud storage). When people start watching them the viewers start distributing the video's data peer-to-peer.
So, if a video goes viral, the large number of people watching at once allows lots of peer-to-peer activity and the instance itself doesn't run out of bandwidth.
Viewers and publishers can optionally switch off the p2p if they want and just watch directly too.
