• Metaright@kbin.social
    6·
    2 years ago

    YouTube might be the biggest challenge yet given the extraordinary amount of storage needed to recreate it.

  • JshKlsn@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 years ago

    I literally have like 1TB of video stored on YouTube and privatized. Google is making $0 from my videos, but they still have to store them and have them available if I want to watch it (it’s all of my Twitch VODs). Meanwhile websites like Streamable perma-delete my 5MB video after it gets 0 views in 2 milliseconds.

    YouTube is a behemoth that will not be replaced.

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
    1·
    2 years ago

    I frankly don’t see a way for federated video to happen unless uploads are severely limited or it’s paywalled. Even with YouTube’s wild compression, you’re looking at several gigs for a single 4k video.

    Honestly the fact that YouTube exists is a miracle. Video is still just monstrously large.

    • GTG3000@programming.dev
      0·
      2 years ago

      Well, time to switch to watching Nebula?

      I can’t see how it will work for small-time creators though. Or for people who just want to show a video online.

      • AlexWIWA@lemmy.ml
        0·
        2 years ago

        I love nebula too. They’re definitely what I imagine federated video would be though. Restricted uploads, and paid. Nothing wrong with that though, video is expensive.

        • GTG3000@programming.dev
          0·
          2 years ago

          Well, one question is how it’d be paid for. You can’t really have a federated payment provider, can you?

          So would you have to pay for each separate server somehow, gathering them up like streaming service subscriptions?

          • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
            0·
            2 years ago

            > You can’t really have a federated payment provider, can you?

            Not to sound like a crypto bro, but this is literally the biggest benefit of cryptocurrencies, easy transfer of money between people wallet to wallet, and you can choose your exchange to exchange the money between crypto and cash.

            Unfortunately crypto bros absolutely ruined crypto for everything it could’ve been

  • sol@thelemmy.club
    1·
    2 years ago

    Peertube already exist. If you have to upload a video to show someone on the internet it’s already more convenient than youtube as you don’t have to login and access with google accounts.

  • RoyalEngineering@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I would love a decentralized TikTok replacement. Aside from everybody’s privacy complaints, TikTok has a really addictive delivery model.

    I would think that short video clips would be easier to federate than beefy 4k video files.

    • letsgocrazy@lemm.ee
      02·
      2 years ago

      I feel like addictive algorithms are a big part of what we need to get away from.

  • NeroToro@lemmy.ml
    0·
    2 years ago

    So for twitter it’s mastodon, for reddit it’s lemmy, for youtube odysee maybe, but what is it for facebook?

    • Alex 🐭@feddit.it
      0·
      2 years ago

      Mastodon -> Twitter

      Friendica -> Facebook

      Pixelfed -> Instagram

      Lemmy/kbin -> Reddit

      PeerTube -> Youtube

      Owncast -> Twitch

      FunkWhale/Castopod -> Music/Podcast

      BookWyrm -> Goodreads

      WriteFreely -> Blog

      • Seigest@lemmy.ca
        04·
        2 years ago

        Now if we could somehow get LinkedIn. It will be the last core of evil pro corporatism.

  • gon@lemmy.world
    0·
    2 years ago

    I REALLY want there to be a better YT replacement on the fediverse or in some form of decentralized way.

    As people are pointing out, videos are very large files, and therefore very expensive to host. The fediverse can mitigate this a little bit, as everyone can host their own videos on their own server, but that’s not enough, and extremely inconvenient.

    I do wonder if the blockchain/torrents can be used here… I’m not a dev or anything so IDK how any of it really works, but I think something to that tune is gonna be the only way, since traditional servers don’t seem to be viable.

  • irmoz@reddthat.com
    0·
    2 years ago

    Yeah, no. The deaths of those websites have not happened yet, and when they do, the Fediverse will not be the one holding the scythe

    • erogenouswarzone@lemmy.ml
      2·
      2 years ago

      Right, it’ll be death by suicides.

      Google should probably be on there too. Can’t find anything either non-corporate or irrelevant these days.

      I was looking for js libraries that extended the ecma array prototypes, Google gave me a billion pages about how to use the ecma array prototypes.