15.3k stars · AGPL-3.0 · v8.2.4 (2026-08-04) · Track this in Scout
Self-hosted video with an ActivityPub feed — the copy of your tutorials whose delivery you control.
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What it is
A video platform you run yourself: upload, convert, embed. It also has a feed that lets other sites and Mastodon accounts follow a channel directly.
What it is good for. This is not an argument to leave YouTube. Growth still happens there. This is about two narrow problems. YouTube has been throttled in Russia since 2024, so a real share of a Russian-speaking audience may not be able to watch. And a demo video embedded on a pricing page ends by offering the viewer somebody else's video, because that is what a YouTube embed does. A self-hosted player ends by offering nothing, which is what you want at that moment.
- You own the player and the embed. No ads, no suggested videos, no third-party tracking for your consent banner to handle.
- It publishes a feed, so n8n can read it.
- Actively released. Version 8.2.0 came out in late May, after a long steady history.
- It is a real service: Node, PostgreSQL, Redis and file storage, plus video conversion that will overwhelm a small server if you let it. Convert on the Mac and upload the finished files.
- Storage and bandwidth are the first cost here that grows as you succeed.
- AGPL-3.0 licence. Also, the shared network will not bring you an audience. A new site with three videos is found by nobody.
The embed then replaces lite-youtube-embed (Ed.
Follow the official guide at https://docs.joinpeertube.org (it uses Docker Compose).
