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The ideal future is Peertube or simply chucking video files on Cloudfront and slapping the standard HTML5 video tags onto a web page. Creators of videos should
by redwall_hp 5y ago
The ideal future is Peertube or simply chucking video files on Cloudfront and slapping the standard HTML5 video tags onto a web page. Creators of videos should one their own web presence, letting the internet be distributed as intended instead of siloing large swathes of content in the hands of a few large companies.
If you’re producing videos as a business, depending on a third party to provide a free service, you’re going to have issues sooner or later.
- dahfizz 5y ago> Creators of videos should one their own web presence. The problem is that nobody wants to pay for it. They want to own their own web presence but on free servers.
- Scoundreller 5y agoWhile you might not own peertube, you control your content on your channel. And I’m happy to share in the hosting that way. Bandwidth and spectrum aren’t like oil. If we don’t use it, it’s lost forever. Worked for how we consumed internet video before Netflix/youtube: Torrents.
- SpelingBeeChamp 5y agoThat is not true. I create content for YouTube as my all the time job (and the jobs of my employees). I have no issue with self-hosting. The problem is that YouTube has the audience. For channels that receive a lot of traffic, only ~15% or of our watch time comes from subscribers. And even less comes from notifications.
- zackees 5y agoPeer tube had hidden scalability limits that they don’t advertise but you get to discover once you try and implement their service.
- Hyolobrika 5y agoCloudfront is a large corporate silo though.