@davey_cakes @jalict @elena It would not surprise me to learn that I have never clicked on a peertube link before. But any system that requires me to accept all connections from any IP to any UDP port, is not a system I will be allowing to access my computer. If that's what peertube requires, it's a terrible design.

@jwz @davey_cakes @jalict As far as I know, it doesn't require it. You can still watch the video.

PeerTube does that to alleviate the bandwidth of the small self-hosted servers where it is installed. When many people want to watch the same video, each share the upload and download, so that the server can survive the load. It's like a tiny BitTorrent.