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That's did news. Perhaps after mastodon grow massive thanks to Elon, and Lemmy grow thanks to reddit, we see peertube get his time to shine thanks to Google... #fuckupyourcompanyFAST
Text is fine but you can't really expect the Fediverse to serve heavy media at a large scale
That, and content creators that aren’t hobbyists need to be paid. Some of my favorite channels rely on ad revenue. Sure, things like patreon exist, but the system won’t work without a fair way to compensate content creators. Obviously blasting people with insane ads, especially ads that are often political, isn’t the way forward.
Media that’s meant to be free, e.g. uploading videos with no expectation of revenue, should stay that way, with community support to keep the platform alive. But content that is professionally produced as someone’s livelihood also needs a way to survive.
Unfortunately a lot of people think “fuck all that, I’ll watch what I want, I shouldn’t have to pay, it should all be free.” I’d rather pay specifically for the content I like and support those creators than the blanket “put ads on everything” YouTube has adopted.
I'd love to see PeerTube grow just like these platforms, but I think it's a lot more complicated to get people to use it than mastodon/lemmy.
Twitter/Reddit weren't used as a major income source like YouTube and Instagram (I am saying this based on famous people in my country, I don't know how it goes on other places), and so are easier to replace. The people posting and discussing topics don't do that for the money, they do because they like it.
YT and its monetization system made possible for people to make a living from the content they produce, and many wouldn't like or simply couldn't sacrifice this income source just to go to a more ethical and private platform like PeerTube.
Another thing to add to that, computer text is amazingly dense. An audio file of me saying just the first word takes up more bytes than this whole comment. Each english ascii charicter is a byte, each non-english char is 1 to ~~3~~ 4 bytes.
"another" as wav file
Audio can and usually is compressed quite well. When it's just human voice, you can be very aggressive with losing specific parts of data.
Videos however aren't as simple - unless you go with very short ones, which YouTube doesn't.
Right, and as much as some proclaim “the blockchain” as some magical solve, having media live on a constantly redundant computationally expensive system helps nobody, except maybe those shilling tokens for those platforms before they bow out and pauses convert their magical tokens into real currency to buy other shit.
For example it’s amazing how Ethereum was meant to be this “world computer” where applications could live, computation and revenue were shared, etc. but every application that lives on Ethereum is basically about moving cryptocurrency around for more profit or shilling NFTs.
Computation is expensive. Storage is expensive. Something like the fediverse is great because it decentralizes those things. But it doesn’t change the fact that hard drives cost money, bandwidth costs money, computation costs money. We should all support ad blocking. But we should also all support the financial obligations of the fediverse where we can help.
They can still ask me to join their Patreon using PeerTube.