 I don't know about you guys, but as a minimalist, I'm very much enjoying the new channel template that YouTube is rolling out. In fact, I left YouTube for a week or two, just sort of took a break and I came back and so many of my favorite channels now have this in their old channel pages. And pretty soon, I guarantee you by the end of election season at least, there will be hundreds and hundreds and thousands probably more of channels that look exactly like this. The standards of what YouTube bans is always increasing, like things that anyone would have posted all the time five years ago, you just get banned for outright nowadays. I know that I have started privating old videos, I mean everyone is doing this now because you don't know what they're going to ban you for next. Anyway, luckily for all of us, we don't really have to worry that much about getting banned from YouTube. Now of course, that would be a bad thing, you get a lot of traffic from YouTube. But one of the things I was talking about a couple weeks ago is having your own website, having your own or using RSS feeds to follow people instead of social media sites. So if your favorite YouTube channel gets banned, well you don't really need to worry that much, you just get rid of your YouTube RSS feed and replace their BitShoot RSS feed or some other kind of site. And now you have their videos just as easily as you did before. There are probably less normies watching them, but that comes with the, I don't know, you got to deal with that, you still got it. So anyway, one of the things I want to talk about in this video very briefly is PeerTube. So if you've been following me on my website recently, I made a PeerTube instance. Now my website is lukesmith.xyz, you can go to videos.lukesmith.xyz and you will see a little screen that looks something like this. You'll see some of the videos that I've done recently. Basically what PeerTube is, is it's your own hosted instance of a YouTube site, you know. You can upload videos to it, you can, let's click on one of these. So you can upload videos, people can watch, people can register for it. And the nice thing about it is, now of course normally, and I will talk about this later, you might be thinking, oh well if I'm hosting my own videos and stuff, that's probably very intensive on bandwidth and it can be of course. But the nice thing about it is it's actually torrent based, you'll see that I have five peers. That is while I'm watching this video, I'm actually downloading it from five different people. Five different people are seeding it. Because basically other people who are watching or other people who choose to make redundant copies of my videos, they can help people watch them. And also you can go here, you can say download, I want to download this video. You can actually just download it either directly or preferably as a torrent. And that allows you to not just download it but also support it, seed it once you've finished downloading it. So anyway, PeerTube is a very nice little system here. It gives you basically everything YouTube, it even gives you stuff that we've talked about like RSS feeds automatically. Now I think, I forget how you do it, so in the same way you can subscribe to a channel. Let's actually, let me go here, I think this is my channel. So you can go to the subscribe button and it actually asks you, it gives you an option, let me move my face here. It gives you an option if you want to subscribe via RSS. So you can actually just get a RSS feed for a channel and stuff like that. So it's very convenient, it's sort of a, again you're just hosting your own videos. Now you might say, okay well that's nice Luke, you have your own video site for your own videos. But who's going to come just to your site? Well first off many people might do that but to be clear how the real important part of PeerTube is that it's federated and what that means is if I go to just my main page, I'm not really using this feature yet but if I go just to my main page it just has these videos that are on my site. But you can actually follow people or people's instances can follow you or you can follow them and that will display all of their videos on your site or vice versa. So actually I have pulled up here, here is a list of my followers, like some of the instances that follow you. Now this is not the same, you can create an individual account on a PeerTube instance. That's one thing but if you follow something that basically means you have your own PeerTube instance and you're looking at the videos there, oh let's see some of these might be going pretty slow just because my internet is slow. But how it works is effectively you can go to one of these sites and they're going to have their own videos and whatever videos of the instances they follow. So if they follow me you might see some of my videos in here. So here's this instance, I don't see any of my videos right off the bat but all the different instances they follow will appear here. So it's very nice, it's very convenient, it has pretty much everything that YouTube has. It separates just more free or it's all free software, you can install this on your own server. You can join it to join PeerTube, you just join any of the instances and your account is tied to one of those instances. Not all instances allow you to join, I think mine I have the user cap at like 5,000 or something like that so you could join if you want. So anyway, so what are the annoying parts of this? Well the annoying parts of this are obviously I'm hosting my own videos which can be a lot of bandwidth and can be a big pain, obviously I only have less than 10 videos right now and they don't have that many views because I haven't really told people. I think I did a little blog post yesterday talking about that I had a PeerTube instance. But the, what was I going to say? So I'll go ahead and show you. So I have this little Vulture server, this is the thing that it's running on now I want to say, yeah, I have a bandwidth cap of 1TB, 1000GB and you can see, well this is my bandwidth usage and this is like not telling anyone that it's out here. Now once I put up this video, there are probably going to be a lot of you guys who click on this and you're going to see this massive orange spike. So the issue is I don't know if I actually have the bandwidth to do this or the storage space either. I can actually upgrade my bandwidth and storage space with a different plan but of course it costs money. Obviously I want to do PeerTube but especially if I end up getting my own server I either have to use a more expensive VPS. I might be paying like 80 bucks a month just for that or if I get my own dedicated metal server, get my own actual server for it that'll cost a couple hundred bucks a month. I cannot do it absolutely where I live because I don't have the internet for it. So I don't know if anyone has either a VPS host that's extremely cheap and does like unlimited bandwidth that would be nice. You can tell me about that. Vulture works for like 99% of use cases and in fact it works better than most but I don't know if I want to pay like 100 something bucks a month. Either way of course if you want to support the PeerTube instance you can go ahead and go to lukesmith.xyz slash donates because I should probably ask people for donations more often but as you may know you can donate to me here. You can set up recurring donations whatever. I brought back a Liberapay which apparently still exists or whatever. Liberapay whatever it's pronounced. So anyway I recommend if you want to support my efforts go download or go donate or something but if you know any other kind of way of me hosting these videos feel free to let me know. I'm just trying to figure everything out trying to do it efficiently but until then go ahead and go to PeerTube if you want to watch any of these videos just go there and watch them. I just want to see how much bandwidth usage I might end up having to need or something like that. But I am going to be doing PeerTube exclusive videos from now. I'm excited because I know there are a bunch of things that I can't say on YouTube, can't do on YouTube anymore but I can easily do on PeerTube and it would be very nice. I'm thinking about doing some videos that would probably go against YouTube's terms of service because they're so stupid nowadays but I'll probably do that there. I want to start easing out of YouTube. I would rather, even if I have to pay out a pocket for a server I'd rather live on donations than living on YouTube ad revenue and I sort of feel the same way about Patreon frankly. I still have a Patreon but I'd rather use Liberapay or something like that or just the normal recurring donation. So anyway, that's just what I'm thinking. That's what's been on my mind the past couple days. So anyway, that's about it. I guess that's an explanation. I'll talk about PeerTube a little more but it's very nice, very well integrated with RSS just a sweet service. So anyway, see you guys next time.