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• Auth@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  LTT storage is excessive. He stores all his footage in full quality instead of just storing his final edited videos in a compressed format. Plus if you’re a youtuber with millions of subscribers you can afford to pay for a few TB of storage to hold and serve your videos. Its not that expensive.

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  • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not after you lose your channel and all your income. PeerTube doesn’t appeal to people who make a living at this because there’s no revenue stream.

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      there is revenue stream. liberapay is integrated, get your viewers to subscribe through there. they can donate any amount, literally.

      then its also common that content creators cooperate with companies, mostly tech companies, to advertise their products. that can still be done on peertube. what they can’t anymore is to show generic ads for everyone every few minutes.

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      • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Oh I did not know this, thanks for the correction. And you’re right about sponsors. I’d be curious to hear the thoughts of a more income-minded content creator on whether this model is viable and what it would take to make it work.

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    • socialsecurity@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sometimes it ain't about the revenue stream.

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      • AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Except for these people, it almost definitely is. They have staff, an office, inventory to manage, etc. Most YouTubers nowadays aren't just operating on their own, and thus have financial expenses outside of just paying themselves for their own labor, that can't just keep going if their revenue stream goes down, or even just takes a large enough cut.

        It's unfortunate, but that's just how a lot of the content creation industry works right now, especially on YouTube.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        GN is literally a sizable business, it absolutely is.

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      • null@lemmy.nullspace.lol ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        It is if you are trying to fulfil the requirements from 2 comments above.

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      • zpiritual@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        What do you want people to buy food with. Welfare checks lol? Where would they get money to buy stuff for testing. They have an acoustic chamber that’s fairly expensive.

        Revenue and professional channels are intimately linked and removing the revenue stream would open them up to bought reviews like heiLTT.

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  • loie@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed. For archival, honestly 720p is good enough. Hockey highlights are uploaded in 720p, but 60 fps for the high motion - for GN or any other info based talking head type stuff, 30 fps will look fine.

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• defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not just storage, but bandwidth.

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• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As someone who worked for years in video transcoding, archiving, streaming, and content management in general: there are absolutely ways to do this efficiently in a self hosted context. You could absolutely build a system that fits your bespoke needs in all of these categories.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hosting a peertube instance would be almost nothing I comparison to this. It’d just be a duplicate of all uploaded videos at worst, which he’s storing many times that amount of raw footage anyway. They probably wouldn’t even notice the overhead.

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