Unfortunately WebTorrent isn’t compatible with normal BitTorrent, so unless you’re using a client that specifically supports it, you’re not helping out any PeerTube clients
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Unfortunately WebTorrent isn’t compatible with normal BitTorrent, so unless you’re using a client that specifically supports it, you’re not helping out any PeerTube clients
What’s the problem with that, though? Systems like that are pretty much guaranteed to be isolated from the internet.
Because things break down eventually, and when it comes time to buy replacement parts you discover that they’re effectively impossible to find. Then instead of having a nice, planned transition period you’ve got like a weekend to cobble together something to get it working again.
Yep, our center-left government recently announced plans to keep using natural gas for at least another 25 years
But it’s ok, because we’ll work out carbon capture in the future! Which is the exact same notion that our previous right wing government based their policy on.
although I’m not sure what USB4 Gen 3×1 is, but it’s only x1 so can’t be that good, right?
It’s the initialisation mode of USB 40Gbps, luckily not something users will have to deal with
You can’t do normal BitTorrent in browsers, there’s no support for plain sockets that you’d need to communicate with other peers, WebTorrent is technically a new protocol that implements the BT semantics over stuff the browsers do provide (So you can proxy between the different swarms, that’s the “hybrid” nodes in the image on the WebTorrent page)
But it turns out it’s all a moot point, since PeerTube removed WebTorrent support anyway in favour of their own P2P system
Edit: Ok so I misunderstood, and it seems like it’s a bit complicated. The server can (it’s disabled by default) use WebTorrent to import videos, the client still uses the WT trackers to find peers but uses a different protocol to actually share the video data.
There’s this tool that provides the ability to automatically seed videos, but development has stalled because no up to date client will ever make use of it.
I think the one remaining use is the “download as torrent” option, but even then that’s just using a web seed, so it’s just an alternative way to download the video.