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There have been plenty of attempts. The problem is the high barrier to entry. Hosting videos costs a lot and you need a lot of content to keep viewers engaged/p
by janosdebugs 3y ago
There have been plenty of attempts. The problem is the high barrier to entry. Hosting videos costs a lot and you need a lot of content to keep viewers engaged/paying. If you go the advertizing route, companies don't really want to invest time and money into a platform that doesn't have a wide enough userbase. The only reason why YouTube worked like this is the silly amount of money Google was willing to sink into it.
There is something to be said about more specialized sites like Nebula, but I, for example, canceled my subscription there because the focus was too narrow.
- rickydroll 3y agomaybe time to build a YTclone on top of IPFS?
- janosdebugs 3y agoHow would that work for the average user?
- wmf 3y agoI don't think users would notice but the IPFS network might collapse.
- janosdebugs 3y agoI think they would if the mobile phone app started uploading a bunch of content and eat into bandwidth and battery. If the app doesn't upload, we still have a centralized system with a very inefficient transport layer. Besides, even if you work around that problem somehow, YouTube has an insane amount of videos with very few views. That means there are not enough people to upload content, the centralized server or the original uploader needs to keep hosting them.
- rickydroll 3y agoif it did collapse from a YT clone, IPFS was not set up to handle what we really need it for, firehose science data sources.