Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads

• FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Unless we have some serious alternatives, that won’t happen anytime soon

  Video hosting is really expensive. Every service running for free will eventually enshitify and turn out similar, because there’s no such thing as free massive servers

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  • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.

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    • 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      All they need that I see is missing, is a way to discover / search everyone from any instance. Like, a consolidated / federated search.

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      • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Not precisely what you’re after but sepiasearch.org

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    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Who pays for the servers? Because if even big platforms like Signal sometimes struggle to pay the bills, in part because they spend a lot on their servers, then it’ll be dozens of times worse with video hosting

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      • brisk@aussie.zone ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Content creators. It’s hard to host everyone’s videos, and it benefits monopolists to imply that doing so is necessary, as it prevents new entrants. It’s not nearly as hard to host your own server (or pay for it to be hosted). It becomes harder when you suddenly become popular, a situation which Peertube explicitly compensates for by sharing the distribution effort between viewers, which scales with popularity.

        Signal makes it’s own bed like YouTube by being a single centralised server for everyone. Nobody every asks “who pays for the servers” when it comes to Matrix or XMPP

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  • Rin@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It is… they’ve out spent the competition. Now that no one else is around, they’re trying to make all the money they can. Luckily, it won’t be long before some other alternative will pop up anyway.

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    • FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      People have been saying this for years now.

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