Comment on Are people blind on PeerTube?

Auli@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is just 12 different kinds of incorrect.

  Think of how much diak space YouTube is using

  Disk space will be the least of your concerns when running a service like YT.

  If everyone can’t upload videos it we’ll never replace YouTube.

  1. Everyone CAN upload videos to their own instance.
  2. It doesn’t have to replace YouTube. It can exist alongside it as a competitor.

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• Suoko@feddit.it ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Disk space is quite cheap and I’m sure high quality vids could take a very small space if NPU processed and upscaled.

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  • catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Disk space is relatively cheap, until you also count redundancy, backups, storage hardware, utilities, and bandwidth.

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    • Suoko@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Redundancy and backup is automatically provided thanks to federation, other instances can decide to host a copy of your vid (see archive.com for example).

      Bandwidth is provided by torrent.

      Storage HW can be anything.

      Ads are supported so you can monetize

      • www.npmjs.com/package/peertube-plugin-adsense
      • npmjs.com/…/peertube-plugin-orion-monetization

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Hell, using consumer grade, free tools (handbrake) I can convert a DVD to mkv and reduce the file size upwards of 75%, and still be perfectly viewable on a current 65" TV.

    I can only imagine the capabilities of Google/YouTube. It would be fascinating to see a high level diagram of how they handle a video.

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