When I tried it in the past, I kinda didn’t take it seriously because everything was confined to its instance, but now, there’s full-featured global search and proper federation everywhere? Wow, I thought I heard there were some technical obstacles making it very unlikely, but now it’s just there and works great! I asked ChatGPT and it says this feature was added 5 years ago! Really? I’m not sure how I didn’t notice this sooner. Was it really there for so long? With flairs showing original instance where video comes from and everything?

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    20 hours ago

    How are PeerTube instances funded? I’d imagine that the cost of running an instance is significantly higher than a Lemmy instance.

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      19 hours ago

      Depends on the instance and activity levels. I run a very small one on my own, and it costs ~$10 each month for server rental and b2 storage.

      If I was running it on a broader scale, it would start to add up, but I mostly wanted to help with federation and reliability, and that’s fairly inexpensive.

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      16 hours ago

      Itd be nice if there was a way for ppl to rent their own channels off an instance rather than a whole instance, since that instance gets expensive hosting it by yourself, built in way like a 1$ a month a channel could cover hosting costs maybe

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        14 hours ago

        Depending on the size of your uploads, that could cost a whole lot more than $1.

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      Depends entirely on the instance. Mine runs on the same server with a bunch of other stuff so virtually nothing.