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[–] ryathal 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube probably isn't worried about open source competition, but Twitch could be a real competitor. Twitch already captured a large chunk of gaming, especially the live streams.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Twitch could have massively ate into YouTube if they wanted, but they must have decided it wasn't worth the cost to host videos.

[–] ryathal 11 points 1 year ago

Twitch would need a lot of work to make videos more first class citizens, that is probably more the reason than storage costs. They have Amazon backing them now with basically unlimited storage potential.