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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Those creator services exist (e.g. nebula) and are great, but they usually cost money, because video hosting is apparently too expensive to just run on donations, and competing with google on advertising is even more of an uphill battle

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I currently support Nebula. That was easy money to spend, unlike the prospect of giving YouTube anything.

Also - since they actually curate their content - there's less of it, and higher quality. Kinda speaks to some of both our points. If they had a policy of "free to all, after a while" (like a lot of patreon people do), they might well have attempted some kind of distributed hosting. Hard to say for sure, but a guy can dream.

Federated video streaming may not have all the questions answered right now, but people are already attempting it. I think the right optimizations, the right content, and the right audience will push it really far. And maybe it won't be "YouTube quality" for a while (or ever), but who needs 4k60 Minecraft/Fortnight lets-plays anyway?