Even something with no iteration at all takes time and money. Paint costs money. The time to sit down and write a first draft costs time.
Which, again, is where getting paid to create art comes into play. And peertube does not provide that. Which is especially bad in the case of video media as pretty much any youtuber will tell you: You are looking at at least a ten to one ratio of time spent creating/editing to any minute of footage. And that just goes up as you work on more complex works. A few of the “maker” youtubers are pretty open that they almost always have three or four active projects and a given 10-20 minute video might represent years of their lives.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Certainly. Effort is important and a financial reward is certainly a strong incentive. These are advantages in youtubes favor. Moreover, the hosting cost is really where problems start to come in with peertube.
I suppose if you expected it to properly replace youtube, then I agree, it’s a poor idea. As something that exists independently with its own value, I think it’s fine though.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
I guess I just don’t see any advantages to it.
If the goal is just to host a few videos on your own site and eat the bandwidth costs: That is a solved problem with much lighter weight solutions.
If the goal is to host videos for other people? Well… think about why someone wouldn’t be able to use youtube or any of the fly by night “totally not just for revenge porn and gorn” (Liveleak sure was a thing) and what that means for liability.
At most I can see it useful for the really sketchy sites. Sort of like how most of the chud twitters are actually a mastodon instance under the hood.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
I don’t see how there’s anything special about it from a liability standpoint. The main advantage I can see from it is simply not supporting google. And yes, there are definitely other options. Does people making competing solutions to problems surprise you in some way?
I mean, I wouldn’t dev it, but I see no valid reason to criticize whoever wanted to.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 9 months ago
Except, again, it is not a competing solution. I often point out the stupidity of arguing that Gimp is at all comparable to Photoshop except… this isn’t even something that is useful for a hobbyist to do touch ups. There is basically zero use case barring providing tools for companies to base their products on. Because the cost of video hosting is just not something people are willing to pay. That is WHY youtube became a thing.
As for liability: Go allow open uploads of videos to your server. And let me know how long until you see a ten year old getting gangraped by a bunch of guys in masks. The “joke” was always that if you had an un-secured FTP you would get a LOT of free porn and… that is what you get. Because people are monsters.