Official PeerTube Mirror (YouTube alternative that actually works over VPNs and Tor)

[maltfield]

This ticket is a request for the Nym project to launch an official PeerTube mirror of your YouTube channel:

• https://www.youtube.com/@Nymtech

Why?

Starting last year, Google begin rate-limiting shared IP addresses. This change made all YouTube video content unavailable to many at-risk users, who protect themselves by using shared IP addresses on the Tor network, VPNs, and Nym. And users at large companies, universities, mesh-networks, etc.

It is therefore not possible for users who currently use VPNs and Tor to be able to learn about Nym via your video content on YouTube.

By creating a free account on a PeerTube instance, many of our target audience (VPN/Tor users) would finally be able to watch our video content.

How?

5 things should be done:

1. Create an account on a PeerTube instance. Here's a short list of recommended instances with open registration:

• LinuxRocks
• 4d2
• ApertaTube
• NorthTube
• TodonTube
• TILvids

(full instances list)

2. Enable YouTube sync, so PeerTube will automatically pull your videos from your YouTube channel

• https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/channel-sync

3. Update the official nym website with a link to your official PeerTube channel

4. Update your YouTube account's "default video description" to include a link to your PeerTube

Note: this is important because Google still loads the video description for VPN & Tor users -- just the video doesn't load. So this would allow VPN/Tor users who can't watch the video to be able to click the link to watch the video on PeerTube instead

5. Change the video description of all your past YouTube videos to link to the PeerTube channel

Or, to make this future-proof in-case you change instances, just setup a redirect for https://nym.com/go/peeertube (same as you do for github in your website footer)

[maltfield]

See also:

• Open-Source All Video Content #5622