Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 5 days agoSeeing the number of dead torrents, it’s highly likely that many videos will quickly die as well
But it would be nice to have a way to seed.
Problem with all federated platforms: which one should people pick? Most instances don’t federate with others
rumba@lemmy.zip 5 days ago
Ideally, everyone would just post their own stuff from their own disk. As things got popular, the fans would cache it for others. We’d just need the self-hosting angels to help us with discoverability.
Realistically, a quick death is probably a fortunate way to save resources if a video can’t gain traction from being useful or entertaining.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 days ago
The vast majority of videos don’t do well so… that means this solution won’t work for most people
rumba@lemmy.zip 4 days ago
If a video doesn’t do well, it doesn’t need cached because it’s not being watched.
They pay to store their flops.
Electricd@lemmybefree.net 4 days ago
I was reacting to this: