A comment from @disrooter from another thread;https://lemmy.ml/post/57418/comment/42932
"As someone who managed a PeerTube instance for a large YouTube channel I have to say the big problem is storage: how are you going to pay for storage that increases with each new video while the income is mostly the same? From a business point of view it’s a suicide.
Keep in mind content creators on YouTube produce many gigabytes/week. In a few years they would have to pay hundreds of dollars each week, even when they pause and not producing any new video, when they are getting less donations and so on.
Why should they invest so much money in a PeerTube instance? Only a premium pay-to-view service can justify it and you really need a high cost-to-produce-and-stream-the-video/minutes-of-video ratio to make it convenient, for example documentaries and not lazy records of hours of online debates." -end quote
This means that if avid content creators wants to host a peertube instance, they will be held back from doing it, because of how expensive it will be.
Just wanna talk about this issue, it deserves It’s own post. let me know what you think.
to each own opinions I guess. the content creator I watch are mostly useful informations for me, and most of them are already on peertube, because they’re based.
I’ll take it with a grain of salt, though video content is a trend that will likely not go away, so at least we should make a usable platform that’s not a corporate media company.
shorter videos will be more frequent, but I doubt people are just gonna make just 3 minute videos. different kind of creator, different lengths.
Peertube as an alternative twitch platform? Huh. never thought of it. imagine peertube having superchat lol.
I agree on this, some creators have too much content that are useless. (except for gaming. well, don’t make me explain it.)
you’re a boomer lol. /s otherwise, it could help. then again that’s for other people to choose. unlikely that people want lower quality vids.