And the only other way that a bigger platform would grow is by ads being displayed on the Instance that brings you back to square one.
Comment on Peertube's moment might come soon
scytale@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The problem with a decentralized video platform as compared to forum/microblogging (lemmy, mastodon) is that it takes a ton more resources to host videos. While anyone can host a lemmy or mastodon instance in their bedroom, hosting videos requires more bandwidth and storage that costs money. Sure there will eventually be bigger instances that will emerge that are professionally maintained, but they will still rely on donations and the instance admin’s own time and effort to do so. I would love for this to happen and actually make a dent on youtube’s monopoly, but it’s not as easy as it looks.
SamXavia@kbin.run 1 year ago
new_guy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sharing video is such a big problem that even Google couldn’t solve it when it was their time. They just bought their biggest competitor when their own platform didn’t get traction. And then operated at a loss for years and years.
I’d love to see descentralized video platforms as the next guy but there are serious barriers that come with the medium