PeerTube — peertube.cif.su (open registration, unlimited quota)
- Free allowance
- Unlimited total quota (
user.videoQuota: -1), 5 GiB per day (videoQuotaDaily: 5368709120). - Verdict
- caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- write-gatedapproval, no email verification; approval-gated and not open-signup
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Unlimited total quota (user.videoQuota: -1), 5 GiB per day (videoQuotaDaily: 5368709120). Registration open, no approval, no email verification.unit GiB; metered on unstated |
|---|---|
| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
5 GiB/day at cif.su is the binding constraint (a two-year fill for 3 TiB). Per-file cap is the global video.file size limit, not separately published; accepted containers include mkv/mov/avi/flac, so arbitrary-ish binaries can be wrapped. Some instances (diode.zone) are unlimited but approval-gated and not open-signup. |
| Identity | email (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free — instance serves HTTP + WebTorrent/HLS; no egress meter. Peers can also seed via BitTorrent, offloading the host. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | yt-dlp PeerTube extractor (verified present). Native REST API v1: /api/v1/videos, /api/v1/users/me, resumable upload via X-Upload-Content-Length. rclone has no native backend; a shell/curl wrapper is trivial. |
| Composes with | cif.su alone is 5 GiB/day = ~1.8 TiB/year per account with no total ceiling. Multiply across the ~15 open-signup instances in the index and across accounts. hittube.fr is a flat 50 GiB with unlimited daily; arkcast.mycreationhaven.com is 5 GiB with unlimited daily. |
| Reliability | Volunteer-run instances disappear without notice — a single admin's disk decision deletes the archive. videoFile.update is disabled on cif.su, so you cannot patch an upload in place. |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET peertube.cif.su/api/v1/config -> {"signup":{"allowed":true,"requiresApproval":false,"requiresEmailVerification":false},"user":{"videoQuota":-1,"videoQuotaDaily":5368709120}} |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET instances.joinpeertube.org/api/v1/instances?count=100 -> 1,783 instances indexed; open-signup with quota: hittube.fr 53687091200, arkcast 5368709120, cif.su -1 |
| 2026-10-21 | source not published | probe: GET peertube.cif.su/api/v1/videos/<uuid> -> files[] = {fileUrl: .../static/web-videos/<uuid>-0.mp4, size, resolution}, downloadEnabled: true |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read