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Chris Trottier Sep 29, 2025

Tired of YouTube calling all the shots? It’s time to build something better—together.

Here’s the slide deck for a proposal to launch a PeerTube co-op.

Right now, there are three of us ready to get this off the ground. I’m looking for two more founder-members to bring us up to five. With that core, we’ll have the resources to make a PeerTube server not just viable, but sustainable—and built to last.

This isn’t about joining someone else’s platform. It’s about creating one. As a founder, you’ll have a real voice in governance and a direct hand in shaping content policies, by-laws, moderation rules, and more.

We’re staying early stage by design. This is the moment to get in, shape the vision, and build something that actually challenges the status quo. If that excites you, message me.

Slidedeck in .odp format: https://drive.proton.me/urls/ZRRBNK4XBM#RmYXrnhKXx3C

Slidedeck in .pptx format: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LgJvocTe6hH8bCw-yy-2o5QWSYCABkyL/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108163627088117284715&rtpof=true&sd=true

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Juancho

@atomicpoet First of all, I should mention that I'm on Peertube, but it's awful. It doesn't work well for many reasons. One of them is the servers that open and close, leaving people stranded. The problem is money; you need a lot, no, a huge amount of money.

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Chris Trottier Sep 29, 2025

@juancho_me You’re absolutely right—running PeerTube as a solo admin is brutal. Storage and bandwidth costs scale fast, and when one person’s server folds, the whole community gets stranded. That’s exactly why I’m working on a co-op model: pooling resources so it’s not just one person footing the bill, and building governance so the server doesn’t live or die based on one admin’s wallet.

A properly structured co-op can spread the financial load, create sustainable hosting, and give members an actual say in how the instance is run. It’s a way to turn the “huge amount of money” problem into a shared, survivable model.

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doboprobodyne Sep 30, 2025

@juancho_me @atomicpoet
https://apps.yunohost.org/app/peertube
I assume bandwidth is the rate limiting step for those hosting off their own domestic internet connection!

#peertube #yunohost #homelab #video #streaming #p2p #selfhosting #degoogle

YunoHost app store | PeerTube

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Chris Trottier Sep 30, 2025

@doboprobodyne @juancho_me Exactly—PeerTube’s P2P functionality helps offset some of the egress costs, especially when multiple viewers are involved, since they share chunks of the stream with each other.

But even with that, hosting video is still very cost prohibitive for solo operators. Egress adds up quickly once you have more than a handful of viewers, and most domestic upstream connections just can’t handle sustained traffic.

That’s exactly why we’re looking at this through a co-op model—pooling resources makes it possible to handle those costs collectively, rather than leaving individuals to carry the entire load on their own.