This technology is very new and only few people are using it. It works, but more people will need to begin to use IPFS for speed to become faster. Dtube only posts your videos to IPFS for you. If you run IPFS yourself you don't need Dtube.
Unfortunately, that's no longer true: videos are uploaded to D.Tube internal server cluster at cluster.d.tube and are streamed from video.dtube.top. They changed it because IPFS was becoming too slow: https://nannal.com/dtube-past-present/
I wouldn't blame it on IPFS though. Since users weren't required to run IPFS when viewing Dtube videos, there weren't many people contributing to seeding/sharing.
Peertube is an awesome alternative that's actually decentralized / federated
Thanks. Have you watched this video? Did it load OK for you?
It's really laggy especially at the beginning. Unfortunately, I suspect most people won't have the patience to wait for it to catch.
Only the first few will have to wait. Dtube has been only slightly faster for me. How is your experience?
DTube seems identical to me.
This technology is very new and only few people are using it. It works, but more people will need to begin to use IPFS for speed to become faster. Dtube only posts your videos to IPFS for you. If you run IPFS yourself you don't need Dtube.
Unfortunately, that's no longer true: videos are uploaded to D.Tube internal server cluster at cluster.d.tube and are streamed from video.dtube.top. They changed it because IPFS was becoming too slow: https://nannal.com/dtube-past-present/
Thank you for this update @elevatrsimulatr
I wouldn't blame it on IPFS though. Since users weren't required to run IPFS when viewing Dtube videos, there weren't many people contributing to seeding/sharing.
Peertube is an awesome alternative that's actually decentralized / federated
https://joinpeertube.org/en/
https://peertube.odat.xyz