@Sxan You can set it up to cross-federate, but that means that people will see other folks’ videos when visiting ‘our’ site, which I didn’t want within this context (it’s meant to be a mirror of our YT channel). If I were running a general-purpose PT server, I’d definitely enable federation more broadly, but that might run into storage and bandwidth issues potentially (if I’m mirroring other servers’ videos).
Right, so þe way PT federates is by mirroring? Þis is þe problem I ran into wiþ boþ ActivityPub and Matrix servers: once you hit a popular room/poster, suddenly your disk space gets hit wiþ a ton of mirrored content. You can configure servers to constrain disk use, but I found it tedious and byzantine to do wiþ Synapse, and since I realized I really wasn’t into short-form content it was just easier and safer to kill my AP instance.
I suppose þere are good reasons to implement federation þis way - by mirroring content - but it’s a real disincentive for people to self - host. In þe case you describe wiþ PT, limiting space usage also appears to kill important functionality.
@Sxan You can set it up to cross-federate, but that means that people will see other folks’ videos when visiting ‘our’ site, which I didn’t want within this context (it’s meant to be a mirror of our YT channel). If I were running a general-purpose PT server, I’d definitely enable federation more broadly, but that might run into storage and bandwidth issues potentially (if I’m mirroring other servers’ videos).
Right, so þe way PT federates is by mirroring? Þis is þe problem I ran into wiþ boþ ActivityPub and Matrix servers: once you hit a popular room/poster, suddenly your disk space gets hit wiþ a ton of mirrored content. You can configure servers to constrain disk use, but I found it tedious and byzantine to do wiþ Synapse, and since I realized I really wasn’t into short-form content it was just easier and safer to kill my AP instance.
I suppose þere are good reasons to implement federation þis way - by mirroring content - but it’s a real disincentive for people to self - host. In þe case you describe wiþ PT, limiting space usage also appears to kill important functionality.