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YouTube --> PeerTube Next? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] F4stL4ne 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (22 children)

YouTube has a bunch of issues:

1/ climate change:

A big centralised server needs lots of power, of cooling, a big pipe for upload/download,
algorithms, metrics, content id, big size imagery (4k), all this is really needing a bunch of energy in itself to run,
advertising in general is an ecological nightmare.

2/ monetisation:

content id is a gamble for creators. A video can be demonetised for the dumbest reasons under the pretext of copyright infringement,
no one knows how the algorithm works, it means one video can be suggested to a lot of people and the next one won't. So income is randomised,
the purpose of monetisation for content creators exist to legitimate the advertising and the monetisation of user's personal data's. Not the other way around. YouTube is not a platform made to retribute creators.

Going on Peertube could mostly fix every ecological problems for the lost of the uncertainty of the monetisation system.

Plus there is a psychological weigh on creators that goes with the monetisation and algorithm of YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Smaller servers doesn't mean less work is being done. It means the work is being distributed outside the server farm. Quite likely it is less efficient, not more.

[–] F4stL4ne 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Less efficient? How?

And I'm pretty sure I didn't say less work was done.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The more you distribute work, the more energy you have to spend on distributing that work.

[–] F4stL4ne 1 points 2 years ago

I already responded to that elsewhere in the thread.

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