Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
RaineV1@kbin.social 1 year agoWhile I can agree with the 4K argument a bit for the hosting is expensive part, I do think it goes way beyond that or long videos. Youtube exists on a scale most don't even realize. Tens of millions of people upload content every day. We're talking thousands of hours worth of video every day.
Not to excuse YouTube for a lot of dumb decisions they made, but even on their best day the site just breaks even due to the cost of hosting.
simonced@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Reading your comment made me realize something important.
Creators should pay the hosting of the files (at a reasonnable rate of course), so the longer and higher quality they want to upload, they have to pay a little fee. Now, it’ll certainly skim off the stupid random uploads that nobody need, and lower storage cost of useless videos. (I only have a couple of vids, I don’t mind paying for the storage to keep them live, and I stop paying, they are free to delete them, no problem)
Next, viewers should pay for the streaming, which is legit anyway, why not, as far as it is at a - yet again - reasonable price.
This should make the plateform content of better quality without all the shit posts, then less ads for the free viewers if reasonable would be enough.
Problem is Google is greedy beyond return, they’ll never take a good decision that favorites us instead of them.
My opinion anyway.