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1. Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2022 09:24:32 UTC Bernie

   I have recorded over 300 Amiga demos. Here they are.

   https://www.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/t9hyg8/i_have_recorded_over_300_amiga_demos_here_they_are/
   #amiga #demoscene #retrocomputing

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2022 18:09:53 UTC Bernie

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     • cos

     @cos I would, but I'm not the original poster. Try asking them on Reddit.

   • cos (cos@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2022 18:09:54 UTC cos

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     @codewiz could you also upload them to a Peertube instance of choice for ad-free viewing? There are already quite lot of oldschool demos on Peertube but more is always welcome!

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Mar-2022 18:11:31 UTC Bernie

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     • cos

     @cos One likely issue is: where would get a Peertube account that lets you upload 300+ videos? And how would they foot the cost of hosting huge amounts of videos?

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 06:38:32 UTC Bernie

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     • Patrick Georgi
     • cos

     @patrick @cos We should totally ask them! :-)

     I met the guy who did Internet Arcade, and it seems all you have to do is get in touch with a concrete proposal and do all the work to make it happen. Easy, right? 😉

     https://archive.org/details/internetarcade

   • Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 06:38:35 UTC Patrick Georgi

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     • cos
     @codewiz @cos I wonder what it takes to add archive.org as webseed for peertube
   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 06:45:24 UTC Bernie

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     • Patrick Georgi
     • cos

     @patrick @cos On second thought, Internet Arcade fits easily in a single SSD drive, while a popular PeerTube instance would quickly grow larger than the WaybackMachine, which was 70 petabytes in 2020:

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine#Storage_capacity_and_growth

   • Bernie (codewiz@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 07:39:54 UTC Bernie

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     • Patrick Georgi
     • cos

     @patrick @cos I had an account on peertube.xyz, but it was limited to a few GBs per user... until it was shuttered 😞

     Which instance will give me at least 50GB of quota and enough bandwidth to stream my videos without hiccups even if they're not popular enough to get any peers?

     Extra points if it uses a good CDN to deal with traffic spikes and stream reliably in any region.

   • Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 07:39:57 UTC Patrick Georgi

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     • cos
     @codewiz @cos Everybody can upload whatever they want to the archive, so that problem already exists in a way. Of course, a PeerTube instance might make it too easy and lead to capacity issues that way...
     
     Still, the original poster could just upload them to archive.org, and present them there, but that's just as centralized as YouTube (but with different management), but at least it has a torrent backend already. I asked if they'd consider that, or if they'd mind somebody else doing it for them.
   • Patrick Georgi (patrick@georgi.family)'s status on Thursday, 10-Mar-2022 19:57:16 UTC Patrick Georgi

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     • cos
     @codewiz @cos Once stuff is on archive.org, it can be streamed via webtorrent. For example, enter https://www-dweb-cors.dev.archive.org/download/NesSuperMarioBroswarpedIn0457.31ByHappylee/NesSuperMarioBroswarpedIn0457.31ByHappylee_archive.torrent on https://btorrent.xyz/view and see the (not quite optimal) presentation of a Mario Brothers speed run hosted on the archive.
     
     I wonder if PeerTube (which is also using webtorrent) could make use of that, presenting videos that are backed by archive.org webtorrents only, only taking care of the fediverse side of things.
     
     But PT also does transcoding for different bitrates - I guess that would be missing, but other than that, archive.org would be the instance providing unlimited quota ;-)