YouTube is a very different scale of platform… There’s probably ways that it could be done, and I know things like PeerTube do exist, but… Storing video is expensive, serving video is expensive, transcoding video is expensive… While I’d love to see it, I’d also worry a little bit about the retention of videos over time. YouTube’s video archive is kind of insanely valuable, and it’d be a shame to have it disappear. Not that I necessarily think it’s safe in Google’s hands, mind you, I just worry that people self-hosting video would drop out pretty quickly.
Anyone hoping there will be a mass exodus from YouTube to other–maybe fediverse YouTube alternatives, reminiscent of the Reddit exodus?
Video hosting is way too expensive and complex to be decentralised.
YouTube is a very different scale of platform… There’s probably ways that it could be done, and I know things like PeerTube do exist, but… Storing video is expensive, serving video is expensive, transcoding video is expensive… While I’d love to see it, I’d also worry a little bit about the retention of videos over time. YouTube’s video archive is kind of insanely valuable, and it’d be a shame to have it disappear. Not that I necessarily think it’s safe in Google’s hands, mind you, I just worry that people self-hosting video would drop out pretty quickly.
Yea, so who’s hosting the videos and providing the bandwidth?
Yes I hope, but I don’t see it happening. Creators will go where the masses are and where the money is.