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> the income from the largest channels subsidizes the servers needed to transcode the millions of videos that will only ever get a single view. Exactly. I had

> the income from the largest channels subsidizes the servers needed to transcode the millions of videos that will only ever get a single view. Exactly. I had 3 different channels, in different points in my life, but the fact that I could, for free, upload a video and have it hosted and then (possibly) watched worldwide on almost any device, it's bonkers. If I had to create an app or pay for storage/upload/etc, it would be impossible.

VRay 6y ago
It wouldn't be impossible. You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos A lot of coders tend to think of videos as being these big, unwieldy things since we used to download them when computers and the internet were a lot weaker. An hour of 480p video is about a gig, 1080p is only about 3 gigs
- FalconSensei 6y ago
  > You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos That's considering: - Transcoding for all types of devices - Having apps that work on all those devices - Being one app that people already use/already have an account to it to reduce friction - Being in an environment where people already are, and where they can discover your content without you telling them about it Sounds kind of ok-ish to me. But for MANY people (most, I would say), $20 bucks is multiple meals, and is a significant spending considering for quite a while, nobody is going to see the content. If I pay $0 to upload and nobody sees it, I don't lose much.
  - VRay 6y ago
    Yeah, you give up a lot of those bonuses (but not all of them, considering the state of web video..) On the plus side, though, if your videos start pulling in ad money, you keep all of it. And you don't have to worry about getting locked out of your Google account because of some overzealous bot misinterpreting a tiny scrap of background music or conversation about chess piece colors
    - FalconSensei 6y ago
      Of course! I absolutely agree with you on those points.

VRay 6y ago

It wouldn't be impossible. You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos A lot of coders tend to think of videos as being these big, unwieldy things since we used to download them when computers and the internet were a lot weaker. An hour of 480p video is about a gig, 1080p is only about 3 gigs

FalconSensei 6y ago
> You could rent a VPS for $20/month and serve thousands of people your videos That's considering: - Transcoding for all types of devices - Having apps that work on all those devices - Being one app that people already use/already have an account to it to reduce friction - Being in an environment where people already are, and where they can discover your content without you telling them about it Sounds kind of ok-ish to me. But for MANY people (most, I would say), $20 bucks is multiple meals, and is a significant spending considering for quite a while, nobody is going to see the content. If I pay $0 to upload and nobody sees it, I don't lose much.
- VRay 6y ago
  Yeah, you give up a lot of those bonuses (but not all of them, considering the state of web video..) On the plus side, though, if your videos start pulling in ad money, you keep all of it. And you don't have to worry about getting locked out of your Google account because of some overzealous bot misinterpreting a tiny scrap of background music or conversation about chess piece colors
  - FalconSensei 6y ago
    Of course! I absolutely agree with you on those points.