I’m kind of sick of opening my tor browser everyday just for looking at important updates.
luckily if we get more people to join the fediverse, which RSS is an available option by default. in the future I might only need to just open my RSS feeds.
the problem is little to no content creators use the fediverse, even unaware that doing this is a good thing because of “First Mover Advantage”. on top of that, unlike that term doing this has no risks involved. you’re just expanding your audience.
People around the internet should ask their favorite youtubers and content creators to also use a Mastodon and Peertube account, maybe get them a crossposter software to do everything for them. if that exists.
like you and everyone else, I don’t want to rely on big social media corporations to connect with people.
I hope this message gets to somewhere, repost this or tell other’s to do the same.
didn’t you read the article? it does make it 10x cheaper as it uses HDD only, and using that system we could add as much storage as we want to, if you don’t believe me this works, youtube uses this system. the only thing we need is a datacenter that is designed for that.
also take in the fact that if peertube finds a way to monetize videos, It may even become more profitable than youtube itself.
this will slow down that storage problem to the point that you wouldn’t even have to worry about it, because hard drives would eventually become alot cheaper.
edit; my mistake It’s not just a filesystem, It’s a data storage system.
The monetization can be made with the upcoming WebMonetization plugin.
The industry already provides storage on demand, see Amazon S3. I don’t think someone can build something better and convenient enough, the maintainance costs are huge too.
A YouTube channel with a few hundred subscribers may be able to make its PeerTube instance affordable if WebMonetization spreads enough and uses the PeerTube instance to deliver premium content and thus bypass YouTube’s membership system.
But providing the video upload service publicly to anyone like YouTube does is impossible because there is no such thing as Google’s ad system. Maybe in the future when the vast majority of users will have WebMonetization enabled.
I didn’t really payed attention to what you said there, you’re right, we’ll just have to get content creators to use peertube first.
For me the key is WebMonetization, if it will partially replace the advertising on the Web there are more chances that casual users will stream microdonations to PeerTube content creators automatically while watching their videos.
Coil’s implementation of WebMonetization already let its users support Twitch channels with microdonations. Imagine if at a certain point YouTube supports ad-free version of its videos if the user is streaming microdonations with WebMonetizarion. And most other premium Web services do the same, for example newspapers. At that point the WebMonetization userbase would be so huge that PeerTube instances can be supported by most of their visitors.
shshhh don’t let youtube know. they might realize that decision is a trap.