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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It’d be dangerous to his revenue stream.

  If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.

  Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.

  It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.

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  • SaltySalamander@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Linus has nowhere near a PB worth of content, between all of his channels.

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    • Bgugi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      To further clarify, his big PB-scale servers are for hosting their archive of raw footage.

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    • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      assuming they didn’t keep 8K, Just the raw 4k footage from just the wan show for one year would be ~150tb

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  this is speculation, but it’s possible that youtube don’t like it when large mainstream creators have backup platforms and will start cracking down.

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  • SaltySalamander@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    LOTS of big creators post their videos multiple places.

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• 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because they do actually do it for the money. It’s a job, and if they put the same content on a non monetized platform, they would drive they’re own viewers away from their own monetized platform = less money.

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• OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them

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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They can, Gardiner Bryant does, and Louis Rossmann uploads to Odyssee. Afaik, there’s nothing preventing a creator from doing that aside from time.

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  • 3abas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Initial setup is the only real time investment. Once you have the final edited video exported, uploading it to multiple platforms doesn’t take much more time. It does take away ad impressions from YouTube, though.

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