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I was wondering the same thing. Looks like the videos are shared using WebRTC, which I have disabled in my browser.

WebTorrent (https://webtorrent.io/) is built upon WebRTC, but I believe PeerTube should fallback to simple HTTP mp4. There is a download link handy that you can open in the browser, vlc, mpv or your favorite video player.

https://diode.zone/download/streaming-playlists/hls/videos/b...

Video playback fallbacks to MP4 over HTTP(S). However this does not work for seeding. Grandparent comment was about why upload count is zero.

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