I use FB because my family is on their.
My feed is almost entirely not my family, but “suggested” posts, and it made me realize I really hope something becomes popular to replace FB next and my family moves there.
What type of site do you hope becomes popular on the fediverse next?
I’d really like for PeerTube to take off, especially with how YouTube/Google seem to be escalating the war on adblockers.
Fun fact, video files are extremely big and cost money to host. It’s a neat idea but will never be scalable in the same way that YouTube is without some form of monetization
Yes, and torrents only work because they are relatively unpopular. You reach a certain scale and proportion of people who would rather just freeload than seed gets too big
Funnily enough, I think federation is the only way anything is going to compete with YouTube. If the hosting costs are distributed across the network, it gets a bit more viable.
I could imagine a niche hobby focused instance funded by a patreon that hosts the videos of a few related creators. Perhaps the videos contain sponsorships which the hosting instance gets a cut of.
It would be even better if there was a BitTorrent style P2P sharing from others who have recently watched a video sharing it to other users. A bit tough from a browser, so perhaps in order to watch videos you need to sign up with (or simply just access via) a “viewer” instance that acts as a content cache and seed for other viewer instances.
You’d have a couple of network hops and p2p startup delays to contend with so perhaps the first 10-20s of a video are packaged as separate chunks that can be fetched directly from the source, or perhaps prefetched for subscribed channels on a given instance. I think you could fudge this as being more or less seamless with an HLS stream.
Viewer instances could fund themselves through the usual selection of options, and keep a cap on costs by limiting users. I could imagine a lot of people might self host viewer instances
Sorry that ended up as a bit of a brain dump
I’m sorry but you’re completely out to lunch, YouTube is barely sustainable as it is and that’s without the inefficiency of distributed storage. There’s no way you can convince people to give up half their phone storage just to watch internet videos when ad-supported alternatives exist
You’re so right IMO!
I’m trying with a Lemmy art instance (we’ll see how that goes eh), and I host that on a PC, why couldn’t I have a bunch of art videos too? I think I can :-)
Of course, those “monetising” youtubers who “has to” “reach out” to millions of subscribers would need something else, but they won’t be missed by me anyway…
peertube already has the bittorrent thing, just not many people watch at the same time. it needs to be easier to seed videos you watch/like without leaving the browser window open
Oh please I hope so.
It’s so frustrating how many youtube creators have to play stupid games just to make it so that their own subscribers see their videos. If I’m subscribed, I wanna see on my home screen when a new video is added by someone I’m subscribed too. I don’t wanna see clickbait_master_10,000’s newest video on there. Like there are so many content creators with millions of subs, who get no views because the aLgOrItHm decided people don’t wanna see their videos, even though all those people subbed to them.
They are escalating n paying customers too…
Imagine paying 15 bucks for something having their shit shoved up your ass without consent, audio is compressed junk. They turn off 4k randomly etc…
They don’t pay for any content really either just serving ads to plebs and booking profits… How are they not making money?
Honestly, the only thing about YouTube that pisses me off as a paying subscriber is that even though I pay for no ads…every fucking video has at least one “sponsor call-out” (aka: ad) that I have to manually skip.
