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I think the only real path forward is for a developer to figure out a way to decentralize video hosting. The future of the free internet is decentralization. We've seen which way the wind blows when platforms are centralized.
Consumer storage is abundant and cheap as hell. There will need to be incentives for: 1. Creators 2. Node hosters 3. Moderators. Potentially AI could do the heavy lifting on number 3. Figuring out a way to avoid ad based revenue would be another hurdle. In an ideal world, creators would accept that only 10% of their viewers would contribute to them monetarily (through patreon or donations) and use the platform for its freedom from corpo bullshit.
But as much as the Foss and decentralized crowd has been growing, I think we're still a long way out from average people becoming fed up enough to care. I still get eye rolls from everybody I know IRL when I try to get them to open an invidious link.
Is it really? For hosting your content, sure. But once you stand up a public instance, I can imagine storage costs would climb pretty quickly.
That's what Peertube is all about. It's like the Lemmy version of Youtube. And it seems to have real funding and development mojo.
You're right. I always thought Peertube was another YouTube frontend.
I wish Piped and Invidious were federated. It would make it so much harder to block.
If one instance gets blocked it could just pull video from another instance. Combine this with some sort of caching system and you would be golden.
Agreed.
and then you lapse into using "patreon" as if it's a generic noun!
Not your intention I know, but this kind of corporate capture of minds has to end somehow.
I think ipfs was supposed to be this but got bogged down in crypto shit. My memory is spotty on this tho