• dedale@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
    I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

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      1 year ago

      BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?