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 6 days agoUnless 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
Rin@lemm.ee 6 days ago
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 5 days ago
People have been saying this for years now.
brisk@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Peertube has already delivered the sustainable model: creators host their own videos and viewers assist distribution.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 days ago
All they need that I see is missing, is a way to discover / search everyone from any instance. Like, a consolidated / federated search.
brisk@aussie.zone 5 days ago
Not precisely what you’re after but sepiasearch.org
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 days ago
Not exactly, but pretty damned close!
It is now a shortcut on my desktop!
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 5 days 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
brisk@aussie.zone 5 days 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
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 5 days ago
Do you really expect more than even 5% of all youtube channels to do it? You have high hopes.
I believe it’s done in a kinda P2P way? Didn’t really check, but wouldn’t that just not work with NAT internet connections, which many people have because that’s just more secure this way? Also, bad for privacy.
Using a TURN server would also add huge costs so it’s basically like hosting your own server