How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

  • NEKRONIUM@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Imagine a site that replaces YouTube that has both the like/dislike and ratings but also feels like the golden era of YouTube. One can only dream

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      YouTube is a tough one, because it actually pays content providers. Of course, I’m all for places like Peertube gaining popularity.

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        1 year ago

        Yes, it’s probably one of the hardest to replace, but I was thinking that it could be hard because of hosting the content

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          1 year ago

          You’re right, storage requirements would be massive as well! On the one hand, a big corporation like Google would have the advantage of big datacentres, but community hosting seems to be able to seed a huge amount of data too. This one will be interesting to watch.