I don’t think that’s true.
It’s my understanding that by federating, you are duplicating the data from the servers you federate with on your own.
You might want to look more into how peertube works then.
The server itself has the option to turn that off or on. And most dont turn that on. Its off by default.
Source: I host a peertube instance.
Does this mean users won’t be able to see videos hosted on other platforms from your instance?
Thats a good question.
Users are still able to see their videos, it just does not create a local copy unless you enable that on your server. Its just a pass-though.
EX:
- https://videos.abnormalbeings.space/w/k7oGP4hkGWMx2oJxpw6KUd which is being passed though
- https://video.canadiancivil.com/videos/watch/9ac216ba-1a55-4ca9-9e6e-574f53a92ba8 original server.
You can see that more clearly here:
And here is my subscriptions (looks and functions identical to Youtubes subscriptions):
But the videos are on their respective servers.
Federation still occurs (and admins can be very specific if they want):
Hope that makes sense!
