I would like to see a torrent based YouTube alternative on Nostr. Of course it would be slower but more free. Upload a torrent of your personal video blog and your followers can view it that way. Torrent downloading is already built into brave.

It does not look that hard TBH. Peertube already supports webtorrent and works quite well. Just fork Peertube, remove all the federation/fediverse crap, replace it by fetching magnet URIs for each video from nkstt events queried from relays, and it's done.

Peertube still host and serves the video on a single server. The average at home hosting person might have one gigabit up and down. Which would serve a maximum of 200 people a 720 p video. Make it only torrent based and that number would scale infinitely really. But you would have to wait a while for each video to start. Which I think is a fine compromise.

vigilante.tv uses the foss hive-tube plugin on their peertube server and it includes a magnet generator and the ui for it is on the download modal if you want to download a video. the torrent support is amazing.