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[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 19 hours ago (9 children)

And who is going to pay for the bandwidth and storage space on those peertube instances?

I mean, I too want to get away from YouTube, but it is going to be very difficult to convince people to pay for what YouTube gives away for free.

[–] lumony@lemmings.world -5 points 18 hours ago (8 children)

The people who set up the instances usually also are responsible for paying to keep them active.

but it is going to be very difficult to convince people to pay for what YouTube gives away for free.

I mean, they're already there. Have you tried using Peertube?

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 18 hours ago (3 children)

They are already there, and someone is paying for the storage and bandwidth for what's already there. Asking for random people to start pulling videos from YouTube and uploading them to someone else's server is going to very quickly make that server go away.

And yes, I have tried Peertube. My experience is when I click a Peertube link from Lemmy, 9/10 it is a dead link.

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