

Content quantity and discovery are definitely issues with peer tube but I think you hit the main issue here… Using it is a horrible broken experience right now. The few available apps are a bad experience and the websites feel cluttered and confusing. One of the core features of PeerTube is P2P sharing (give back what you take) but whether I’m using an app or browser I can never tell if that feature is actually available and working. I just want a user friendly app that plays videos and allows me to passively contribute bandwidth to channels/videos I like. I really want to like PeerTube but it’s not a fun experience at the moment.



My guess is if the server side connection stays half open it would mean the server is still sending data to your device after its closed the connection causing that data to essentially get sinkhole’d.
Maybe in some extreme examples if you have a huge amount of connections that get abruptly closed your bandwidth could be limited until the connections expire. In normal circumstances that probably just means a small amount of additional background resources are getting wasted.