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Its also getting the content creators onto the new platform. Thats a bigger challenge I think, without creators it's a dead site really, and making videos is significantly more difficult than image or text posting.

For storage, if we assume the format would be WebM at 1080p, 60fps and 20 minutes in length, it turns out to about 1GB. Even a cheap VPS instance usually offer 50GB of storage (with not too expensive storage upgrades).

So if its distributed evenly, we can host a good bit of videos (nothing compared to YouTube though).

Yeah I think most people thinking we can just replace YouTube do not understand the scale of their operation. What YouTube does is many many orders of magnitude bigger and more complex than anything happening on the fediverse. PeerTube is a joke by comparison. There is a reason that even when VC money was flowing like crazy, nobody was able to even think about launching a competitor.

On top of that, no platform can seek to replace YouTube without offering the same or better creator compensation. Free services will never meet that.

I mean you're right that YouTube isn't going anywhere, but they're going to either delete that data or start charging you for it at some point

I wouldn't count on that and I'd definitely recommend backups. I had a channel full of videos just disappear and I never found out what happened. I just went to check something one day and it was gone. The videos are all gone. Nobody could help I eventually just had to suck it up. From what I read at the time it happens here and there but not to people big enough for there to ever be a stink about it. Someone said it happens if you don't log on for long enough but I logged in every few months at least for various reasons so I dunno.

So is Facebook and Twitter. This meme is premature in triplicate.

Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.

Yeah, FB was killed by the younger people abandoning it for other SM. Twitter was killed by Musk. Reddit was killed by Spez.

And by "killed", I mean "lost some users and content quality". They still have millions of active users.

And my personal feed on Reddit is pretty much unchanged. Very few niche subreddits went into an extended blackout, so I still got all my content. And since I use the mobile website (FF+uBlock), the API change didn't affect me that much. But I hope more communities from Reddit will move over here, especially the non-tech ones.

I hadn't dealt with video in years (like 2008) and recently used my Canon R6 to record a few seconds of 4k footage.

After getting over being annoyed at the camera stopping due to overheating after just 5 minutes, I was shocked to see a 7 second clip come to almost 700mb as a raw file.

Indeed video will probably be the last kind of network to see federation. It could take some pretty generous acts of philanthropy along the way to make anything sustainable happen.

Even if YouTube is questionable on privacy-YouTube have more of a product unlike social media where you are the product

Yep people don't realize the cost of running YouTube, and why all the creators are there.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeerTube

I agree. I think it's just good that with all this shitstorm, a lot of the good users migrated to the Lemmy.

We don't need 100% of the Reddit population here, if we just get like 10-20% we will have potential to become the long gone golden age of Reddit.

High five for those into fantasy!!

...Not with that attitude.

Exactly. Youtube is there to stay, i think. I dont have many issues with it as well tbh. I pay for our family account and its just an amazing experience, no need for Spotify with YT Music as well. Creators earn more with premium too - the service is just working for me.

One could debate about hosting costs and revenue split and content policies, but in principle, i have no qualms with Youtube.

All of these platforms are still used by many. As a someone who left Reddit for Lemmy I gotta say a lot of these people have a heavy dose of copium saying Reddit is dead just because they'd like it to be.

The "dead" platforms still exist it just that they've undergone unacceptable amounts of corporate enshitification.

but what is it for facebook?

I volunteer my trash can for Facebook, should do a decent job and it already has the smell to match, so we don't need to waste time implementing that feature

Mastodon -> Twitter

Friendica -> Facebook

Pixelfed -> Instagram

Lemmy/kbin -> Reddit

PeerTube -> Youtube

Owncast -> Twitch

FunkWhale/Castopod -> Music/Podcast

BookWyrm -> Goodreads

WriteFreely -> Blog