YouTube has been dominating 99% of it’s competition by taking 75+% revenues of everyone, analytics, and portfolio shenanigans.
It’s entirely upto you if you want to deal with a fascist website than dogfood your VOD experience.
I’m not saying that they aren’t basically the antichrist. The problem is we need an actual good solution, just hard line telling people that this is evil so you should put in a shit ton of effort to not using it is just not realistic. It’s not going to sway people, i do use nebula and floatplane which i pay for. They have their own problems but they aren’t as bad as YouTube but more importantly they are usable.
It’s very sad that the people that have the skills necessary to actually make something open are always also just so Hardline head up their ass about self hosting everything. I can self-host plenty I have piped, immich, jellyfin, frontend replacements for pixiv, imgur and others as well as my own pastebin. I’m no stranger to self hosting but that doesn’t mean that I’m stupid enough to think that it’s a viable way to get rid of YouTube it’s just not
The best solution is everyone p2p 3-layer worldwide rountrips of server mirrors, so you get seeded by at the least 3 servers near your ISP. It’s as realistic as TOR already is: by mass volunteering.
it’s a viable way to get rid of YouTube it’s just not
Logistically, you have you math in reverse: it is precisely the demand for centralization that FashTube is keeping it’s control.
If everyone with a computer hosted even 1GB of peertube, we can host our transnational on-Demand superseeders forever, and them some.
YouTube has been dominating 99% of it’s competition by taking 75+% revenues of everyone, analytics, and portfolio shenanigans.
It’s entirely upto you if you want to deal with a fascist website than dogfood your VOD experience.
I’m not saying that they aren’t basically the antichrist. The problem is we need an actual good solution, just hard line telling people that this is evil so you should put in a shit ton of effort to not using it is just not realistic. It’s not going to sway people, i do use nebula and floatplane which i pay for. They have their own problems but they aren’t as bad as YouTube but more importantly they are usable.
It’s very sad that the people that have the skills necessary to actually make something open are always also just so Hardline head up their ass about self hosting everything. I can self-host plenty I have piped, immich, jellyfin, frontend replacements for pixiv, imgur and others as well as my own pastebin. I’m no stranger to self hosting but that doesn’t mean that I’m stupid enough to think that it’s a viable way to get rid of YouTube it’s just not
The best solution is everyone p2p 3-layer worldwide rountrips of server mirrors, so you get seeded by at the least 3 servers near your ISP. It’s as realistic as TOR already is: by mass volunteering.
Logistically, you have you math in reverse: it is precisely the demand for centralization that FashTube is keeping it’s control. If everyone with a computer hosted even 1GB of peertube, we can host our transnational on-Demand superseeders forever, and them some.