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No, people need to stop letting Apple and Google have so much power; such silly victim mentality! There's plenty of software and means to host your own video p

No, people need to stop letting Apple and Google have so much power; such silly victim mentality! There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms.

echelon 3y ago
> There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms. There's plenty of ways people can start their own countries and currencies too.
- Espionage724 3y ago
  Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency? Video hosting is as easy as hosting Piwigo, GNU mediagoblin, Lychee, Zenphoto, or tossing something together in PHP. All that is free and open-source.
  - jpc0 3y ago
    Hosting the software isn't free, neither is storing the content to be served, neither is serving the said content. I think you vastly underestimate the amount if bandwidth video takes.
    - Espionage724 3y ago
      You can host videos on any bandwidth and hardware you can get your hands on; old laptops from landfills, SBC Raspberry Pis, $80 decommissioned Optiplex from businesses, and even Android phones and TV sticks if you set the servers up through Termux. You can also use the cheapest VPS option for like $5/month, but that kind of negates not using YT at that point. It's free in the sense of all the software being available to do so for free (OS, webserver, php, media software), and free as long as you have something to run it on; chances are anyone reading this can use the same device to run the server. Whether or not the people watching the videos from the server will have a good experience is something different :p But even a low-speed broadband connection in the US today has enough upload to handle small sites and I can vouch for this on measly 1MB/s upload (I've self-hosted videos over years with all the mentioned software). YouTube is a provider that has the resources to allow people to upload videos, and watch them for free. It's their platform, and they have usage rules.
      - jpc0 3y ago
        1 Mbps would barely give you a low quality stream to a single user, never mind multiple users. My point wasn't against self hosting your own content either, but rather that this is absolutely not an alternative to YouTube in any way because scaling to YouTube's level is extremely expensive. The draw of YouTube is also the user made content, not stuff you can buy off the shelf, rip and then host. This means those users would never use a decentralized platform because discoverability is nearly impossible. The fight you are fighting is a nobel one, but reality means it's always going to be a niche solution that nerds use.
    - johnnyanmac 3y ago
      still less than founding a country. You don't need to host Youtube levels of content to make a video hosting service. If you say that is inferior to Youtube... well, you see why people don't move. In this case Youtube simply outcompeted you.
  - account42 3y ago
    > Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency? Traditionally, by violent means.
account42 3y ago
You can't expect every human being to be enough of an expert in all topics to make informed choices on their own for all their interactions with corporations. That's why we have tons of saftey regulations governing the products you can sell. Similarly, it is much more reasonable to resrict a few megacorporations than it is to expect everyone to understand why the so-called "trusted" computing is bad for them.

No, people need to stop letting Apple and Google have so much power; such silly victim mentality! There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms.

echelon 3y ago

> There's plenty of software and means to host your own video platforms. There's plenty of ways people can start their own countries and currencies too.

Espionage724 3y ago
Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency? Video hosting is as easy as hosting Piwigo, GNU mediagoblin, Lychee, Zenphoto, or tossing something together in PHP. All that is free and open-source.
- jpc0 3y ago
  Hosting the software isn't free, neither is storing the content to be served, neither is serving the said content. I think you vastly underestimate the amount if bandwidth video takes.
  - Espionage724 3y ago
    You can host videos on any bandwidth and hardware you can get your hands on; old laptops from landfills, SBC Raspberry Pis, $80 decommissioned Optiplex from businesses, and even Android phones and TV sticks if you set the servers up through Termux. You can also use the cheapest VPS option for like $5/month, but that kind of negates not using YT at that point. It's free in the sense of all the software being available to do so for free (OS, webserver, php, media software), and free as long as you have something to run it on; chances are anyone reading this can use the same device to run the server. Whether or not the people watching the videos from the server will have a good experience is something different :p But even a low-speed broadband connection in the US today has enough upload to handle small sites and I can vouch for this on measly 1MB/s upload (I've self-hosted videos over years with all the mentioned software). YouTube is a provider that has the resources to allow people to upload videos, and watch them for free. It's their platform, and they have usage rules.
    - jpc0 3y ago
      1 Mbps would barely give you a low quality stream to a single user, never mind multiple users. My point wasn't against self hosting your own content either, but rather that this is absolutely not an alternative to YouTube in any way because scaling to YouTube's level is extremely expensive. The draw of YouTube is also the user made content, not stuff you can buy off the shelf, rip and then host. This means those users would never use a decentralized platform because discoverability is nearly impossible. The fight you are fighting is a nobel one, but reality means it's always going to be a niche solution that nerds use.
  - johnnyanmac 3y ago
    still less than founding a country. You don't need to host Youtube levels of content to make a video hosting service. If you say that is inferior to Youtube... well, you see why people don't move. In this case Youtube simply outcompeted you.
- account42 3y ago
  > Ok I'm curious; how can a person start their own country and currency? Traditionally, by violent means.

account42 3y ago

You can't expect every human being to be enough of an expert in all topics to make informed choices on their own for all their interactions with corporations. That's why we have tons of saftey regulations governing the products you can sell. Similarly, it is much more reasonable to resrict a few megacorporations than it is to expect everyone to understand why the so-called "trusted" computing is bad for them.