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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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Today there’s no good alternative to YouTube, you can only change the front end… Today you cannot challenge YouTube, just because it needs to host PBs of datas, financially you can’t just afford it.
Multiple porn tube sites seem to manage it.
We need decentralized tech. If a company comes along that figures out how to significantly lower hosting cost YouTube is screwed
The only option will be to use all the users to seed the videos to others, but for this the app need a lot of users
I suspect that’s fraught with copyright challenges, though it does seem like a fantastic approach on the face of it.
No company can afford to host video for people who aren’t willing to see ads, give up personal info or pay for the service. Where would they get their hosting costs from?
If it were decentralized in a way that is utilizing the bandwidth of its users, that is one possible solution I think
It sounds like a good idea but my experience with Peertube has been really bad. Bandwith is a very serious problem, even for small instances. They need to impose severe restrictions on user registration and upload limits and even then I feel like it’s hard to break even.
Yep I think there is too much content to realistically keep around in a true decentralized fashion when you’re limiting the storage to only the ones who consume your content in the first place.
Storage is another issue. Will you store / seed random YT videos on your PC? You need to make sure you have enough copies so things are available and that there is adequate bandwidth so you do not wait multiple minutes for video to start.
Reliable video sharing sites with tons of content like YT / Vimeo makes sense only being centralized and they must have some kind of monetization like ads or subscriptions.
If I had the answer then I would be rich