Moving from YouTube to PeerTube

If you do run a YouTube channel with any type of significant viewership, I highly recommend backing up your videos, in the event you may need to self-host your content in the future.I’m not rehosting everything I’ve posted on Vimeo or YouTube. I’m not changing any of the descriptions for existing videos, but newer uploads to YouTube will have a link to my PeerTube mirror.An embedded PeerTube video comes with a warning, because when you watch one of these videos using the web player, you may also be serving that video to other audience members watching it at the same time. This is one of the trade-offs between privacy and decentralization.PeerTube can also communicate to other servers via ActivityPub, allowing people to subscribe to a video channel from other PeerTube instances, or other servers running Mastodon, Pleroma or other ActivityPub compatible software.YouTube has a feature where you can upload a text document of a video transcription and YouTube will attempt to automatically time-code that text as subtitles.