I don’t think video streaming is likely to be viable with a fedi-like model, unfortunately.
Would love to see more creators move to Nebula, though. I don’t think that would work for the casual youtubers I follow, but for the bigger producers, it’d be great.
YouTube is a very different scale of platform… There’s probably ways that it could be done, and I know things like PeerTube do exist, but… Storing video is expensive, serving video is expensive, transcoding video is expensive… While I’d love to see it, I’d also worry a little bit about the retention of videos over time. YouTube’s video archive is kind of insanely valuable, and it’d be a shame to have it disappear. Not that I necessarily think it’s safe in Google’s hands, mind you, I just worry that people self-hosting video would drop out pretty quickly.
Anyone hoping there will be a mass exodus from YouTube to other–maybe fediverse YouTube alternatives, reminiscent of the Reddit exodus?
Yes I hope, but I don’t see it happening. Creators will go where the masses are and where the money is.
Video hosting is way too expensive and complex to be decentralised.
Yea, so who’s hosting the videos and providing the bandwidth?
I have heard of peertube as a fediverse-based alternative, but I have not heard of anybody actually talk about really using it.
I don’t think video streaming is likely to be viable with a fedi-like model, unfortunately.
Would love to see more creators move to Nebula, though. I don’t think that would work for the casual youtubers I follow, but for the bigger producers, it’d be great.
YouTube is a very different scale of platform… There’s probably ways that it could be done, and I know things like PeerTube do exist, but… Storing video is expensive, serving video is expensive, transcoding video is expensive… While I’d love to see it, I’d also worry a little bit about the retention of videos over time. YouTube’s video archive is kind of insanely valuable, and it’d be a shame to have it disappear. Not that I necessarily think it’s safe in Google’s hands, mind you, I just worry that people self-hosting video would drop out pretty quickly.