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.
Candelestine@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Yes, I was saying I didn’t see how the liabilities of video hosting with peertube are any different from any other local video hosting.
Regarding GIMP it sounds to me like you just don’t like it. lol You’re entitled to your opinion, it’s fine. Why you find the need to leave your review here is beyond me though.