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Getting Started with PeerTube

There's a bit of a conceptual disconnect at the moment with how channels are supposed to work. At first glance, the hierarchy takes some getting used to. Let's untangle this! The user account you create when registering for PeerTube is an Account. From a technical perspective, every video you upload is referred to through it, because technically it's an ActivityPub Actor object. What this means in practice is that people can subscribe to it directly on Mastodon...

September 28, 2018|

A Quick Guide to the Free Network

Many newcomers to the federated web may hear of a casual reference to the fediverse, and may be curious about what that term means. A simple explanation might be that it's a portmanteau of "federation" and "universe", but it's actually a little bit more complicated than that. Let's dive into the nature of this beast, along with some of the history that comes with it...

September 23, 2017|
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