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Youtube is one of the most expensive sites because they chose to model their infustructure this way. Same reason facebook needs such massive servers. It wants c
by _aavaa_ 3y ago
Youtube is one of the most expensive sites because they chose to model their infustructure this way. Same reason facebook needs such massive servers. It wants control of the data.
Youtube could be re-done in a peer-to-peer format a la torrents. You subscribe to someone and watch their videos you're also re-uploading to others. Tada, massive server problems disapear.
- realusername 3y ago> Youtube could be re-done in a peer-to-peer format a la torrents This is my dream, it's not going to happen though because what Youtube cares even more than server costs is controlling videos
- holoduke 3y agoLol your peer will run 100% CPU whenever a video is requested on basic hardware. Live transcoding, subtitles, tagging. Every time a video is published your system becomes hugged to death. Nobody is able to watch videos normally unless there is some decent spread. Nah end users don't want to have this problematic user experience.
- _aavaa_ 3y agoThen don’t do live transcoding on basic hardware. Sending subtitles is sending a text file, not some monumental task. Even a cpu version of whisper only needs to be run once (and can be done by the uploader). Not all devices need to do the same amount of work. Not all the work needs to happen when the screen is on and on battery power. End users also don’t want to be bombarded with ads and spied on for the privilege of being bombarded with them.