So Elon gutted Twitter, and people jumped ship to Mastodon. Now spez did… you know… and we’re on Lemmy and Kbin. Can we have a YouTube to PeerTube exodus next? With the whole ad-pocalypse over there, seems like Google is itching for it.

  • HTTP_404_NotFoundEnglish
    26•1 year ago

    I will volunteer resources all day long to post a mostly text platform such as mastodon/lemmy/etc.

    But- doing video streaming, consumes a lot of resources.

    Using, my plex as an example, it supports a few handfuls of people. But- scaling that to hundreds/thousands… Its not going to be fun.

    Videos take up a ton of room. Streaming them, consumes resources for transcoding.

    • @sznio@beehaw.orgEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Well, PeerTube works like torrents - which are proven to scale well. Main problem stems from monetization.

      • HTTP_404_NotFoundEnglish
        9•1 year ago

        I’ll take you word for its implementation-

        Main problem stems from monetization.

        That, is the real issue. Persuading content creators to come elsewhere will always be a challenge, especially as… well. income/money is the reason most of them make videos.

        This is compounded by the fact, the majority of us purposely block ads, and nobody is going to switch from youtube, to a platform filled with ads.

        In terms of compensation, that gets even tricker. If- the content creators are being compensated, then the people hosted the petabytes worth of videos, is going to want to be compensated as well.

        Honestly, as dumb as it sounds, the best way to implement this, might be in a form of storage-based crypto, where the coins are earned from the pieces of videos you are hosted.

        Let’s be honest- 99% of us don’t pay a cent for watching youtube content, and over 90% of us block all of the ads.