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  • patryk@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    YouTube won’t die anytime soon because running a Video Streaming Platform is way too expensive if you’re not a big company. So there’s no good alternatives. PeerTube Instances couldn’t handle the massive data that YouTube can

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      1 year ago

      because running a Video Streaming Platform is way too expensive

      Youtube CAN die, even without an alternative. But I understood what you meant

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    1 year ago

    I don’t think anything will ever replace YouTube. Did you ever wonder why there aren’t many good alternatives?

    It’s because video streaming websites are very expensive and usually run at a loss. The storage and bandwidth to support all these users constantly uploading and watching videos is really high. It’s why the Twitch competitor Mixer shut down a few years ago, it was bleeding money.

    I use an adblocker and hate ads as much as the next person but imo prople do take these video services for granted. They need ads to survive and I can’t imagine a world where I’d need to pay a subscription to use them.

  • ThatGuy@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Reddit isnt dead yet, and it will be much harder for youtube to die. Kinda hard to make creators move when its their job, and without them moving, there is no chance of any progress occuring.

    Right now, the best thing they can do is host their content on youtube AND other alternatives like Odyssey. This lets them make the same money they always had, but also gives people an option to watch it somewhere else. Unfortuately, your average youtuber is completely clueless about this option and so you mainly only see tech people doing it with only a few exceptions here and there.

  • RIPandTERROR@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    Can anyone eli5 why pornhub doesn’t just use their long standing streaming infrastructure to create a sfw site like… Idk “VidHub”? I feel like they could be a genuine competition with very little adjustment.

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      Youtube is waaaay different from pornhub. The amount of people uploading porn doesnt even begin to approach the amount of people uploading sfw content.

      You can feasibly make people pay for porn, especially if you get a hot girl to advertise the content to lonely men.

      SFW content though? How do you convince someone to pay for a gaming VOD, or some other type of mundane content? Hosting sfw video is just not profitable on the scale that youtube does it. Not without the backing of some SERIOUS money 😬

    • chramies@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      or Vimeo setting up a more ‘community’-oriented form of itself, with free uploads etc. Or Flickr going in for long-form video. Could something like that rival YT?

  • missingno@kbin.social
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    Youtube is far too expensive for anyone to try and run a competitor to. I don’t think we’ll ever see a replacement.

    Google is still losing money on it, and might never make it profitable. There’s a real risk that Youtube just dies on its own and nothing replaces it.

  • mmmplak@kbin.social
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    Youtube is one of the things that less techie people think of when it comes to internet videos. It’s quite mainstream and will stay for long.

  • gapbetweenus@kbin.social
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    Not sooner as someone figuring out a way for cheaper video hosting. I don’t think youtube is even profitable.

    • Bloonface@kbin.social
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      It’s in the same boat as Reddit is where it has gained a lot of goodwill by providing free content hosting for pretty much anyone, but because they’ve done that for so long it’s seen as having little value, so attempts to generate value from it are resented.

      I’m a lot more sympathetic to YouTube than I am to Reddit though, to put it bluntly.

  • 21trillionsats@infosec.pub
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    No one has solved a way to make hosting massive amounts of videos cheap, and this is unlikely to happen anytime soon due to the large amount of data storage and bandwidth required.

    So no, even if YouTube somehow becomes even more tyrannical than it is it’s unlikely we’ll ever see it decentralized and federated the way Lemmy is in a usable way anytime soon.

  • Sens@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    Peer Tube could take off by us uploading to it and linking it from Lemmy

    • exohuman@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      The only problem is YouTube has a way to monetize their videos, attracting creators who work to make money on the content. PeerTube doesn’t have that yet.

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        1 year ago

        Handling ads and payments is a whole other issue that federated platforms haven’t even begun to tackle yet. Crypto might be a way forward but it’s messy enough that it might turn some people off.

  • XTL@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    There are already many other sites and as YouTube keeps getting worse and greedier there will probably be more and more creators going elsewhere.

    One example is firearms content moving to utreon. And obviously nsfw which has never been welcome there being available on many other hosts.

    YouTube is not the only possible video service that can exist in the world.

    It’s unlikely that another monopoly can take over their business as a whole, but YouTube can definitely fail and video hosting has long been fragmented.

    • notun@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The worst thing about youtube is that they forced all my favourite youtubers into becoming streamers, and that’s just an entirely different type of content.