This is exactly why we as a community need to work hard to build federated platforms, that are censorship resistant. YouTube as the public square is extremely censored, and arbitrary, today it’s not so bad, but tomorrow who knows
There are already distributed video hosting solutions. They all the same three problems:
CSAM. Lemmy admins are already having to deal with assholes who upload child porn and then the federated instances who are less vigilant
Discoverability: If we start having curated lists of what content people are willing to host then you will never see any new creators who didn’t get big elsewhere
Monetization: This goes without elaboration
So the end result is what we already see a lot of lemmy boards as. Just shamelessly copying anything popular off of reddit or hackernews.
That is the issue with video hosting. You basically need an entire cloud compute business to even attempt to justify the costs.
This is exactly why we as a community need to work hard to build federated platforms, that are censorship resistant. YouTube as the public square is extremely censored, and arbitrary, today it’s not so bad, but tomorrow who knows
Mass video hosting is just so incredibly expensive, especially something in the scale of the types of CDNs services like YouTube use
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There are already distributed video hosting solutions. They all the same three problems:
So the end result is what we already see a lot of lemmy boards as. Just shamelessly copying anything popular off of reddit or hackernews.
That is the issue with video hosting. You basically need an entire cloud compute business to even attempt to justify the costs.