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Maybe a naive question: how about cdns like cloudflare? Too costly? Edit: and also P2P style caching? I would expect a big number of users can act as relays?

• INTPenis 4y ago
  The way Youtube made it work was that they own their CDN, globally. Yes I think using someone elses CDN would eventually cut into your profits, which btw, wtf are your profits? Self hosting a video streaming platform is a black hole for money. The only way it's possible is if you use it to create an ad platform. You must have a revenue stream to keep it going and allowing kids to share videos a million times an hour is not it. And regarding p2p, it's a deep technical discussion but I think you can simplify it if you look at this from the end user perspective. They're swiping down like once a second sometimes and every time they swipe down a video is ready to play. That's highly on-demand video streaming, for thousands, or millions, of users. So I don't care what p2p solution you got, you can't bypass the basic laws of internet tubes. Didn't you hear Al Gore? There is only so much on-demand video streaming you can fit into one tube. ;) I say that tongue in cheek but what I mean is at the end of the day someone has to pay for the bandwidth of constant video streamin, even if it comes from p2p it's still a lot of bandwidth. What peertube is doing would not work for a tiktok/vine-style app because it's too slow at establishing a p2p connection.