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Or better yet PeerTube.
I don't know if I'm stupid or not but I tried going to peertube and I couldn't for the life of my understand what I was looking at. It just seemed like a vague soup of instances with no continuity or ability to know what I was looking at. Maybe I accessed it wrong but I didn't fully get it.
Every substantial youtube channel should be hosting and backing up to a self-hosted, owned, peertube.
Issue is such channels need giant amounts of storage for this.
Linus tech Tips showed his multiple upgrades over the years it's quite crazy what they need on storage space.
Storage? Traffic is the real cost
As someone who worked for years in video transcoding, archiving, streaming, and content management in general: there are absolutely ways to do this efficiently in a self hosted context. You could absolutely build a system that fits your bespoke needs in all of these categories.
Not just storage, but bandwidth. Streaming one video to potentially thousands of people at once can get very expensive.
LTT storage is excessive. He stores all his footage in full quality instead of just storing his final edited videos in a compressed format. Plus if you're a youtuber with millions of subscribers you can afford to pay for a few TB of storage to hold and serve your videos. Its not that expensive.
That's the right way to do it, you want to avoid generation loss as much as possible.
Not after you lose your channel and all your income. PeerTube doesn't appeal to people who make a living at this because there's no revenue stream.
there is revenue stream. liberapay is integrated, get your viewers to subscribe through there. they can donate any amount, literally.
then its also common that content creators cooperate with companies, mostly tech companies, to advertise their products. that can still be done on peertube. what they can't anymore is to show generic ads for everyone every few minutes.
Oh I did not know this, thanks for the correction. And you're right about sponsors. I'd be curious to hear the thoughts of a more income-minded content creator on whether this model is viable and what it would take to make it work.
Sometimes it ain't about the revenue stream.
Except for these people, it almost definitely is. They have staff, an office, inventory to manage, etc. Most YouTubers nowadays aren't just operating on their own, and thus have financial expenses outside of just paying themselves for their own labor, that can't just keep going if their revenue stream goes down, or even just takes a large enough cut.
It's unfortunate, but that's just how a lot of the content creation industry works right now, especially on YouTube.
It is if you are trying to fulfil the requirements from 2 comments above.
GN is literally a sizable business, it absolutely is.
If you are running a business then you should either toe the line with your platform provider or make sure you have alternatives in place to move away from them if you value full creative control.
These people don't understand what a class war looks like...
What do you want people to buy food with. Welfare checks lol? Where would they get money to buy stuff for testing. They have an acoustic chamber that's fairly expensive.
Revenue and professional channels are intimately linked and removing the revenue stream would open them up to bought reviews like heiLTT.
Either way the creative control is compromised, just in different ways.
We live in a society... What makes you think he'd even have a channel if he didn't need money?
Most of anything exist because people need money for food. Companies, technology, stuff. If people didn't need money the channel most likely wouldn't exist since stuff largely wouldn't exist.
Agreed. For archival, honestly 720p is good enough. Hockey highlights are uploaded in 720p, but 60 fps for the high motion - for GN or any other info based talking head type stuff, 30 fps will look fine.
Hosting a peertube instance would be almost nothing I comparison to this. It'd just be a duplicate of all uploaded videos at worst, which he's storing many times that amount of raw footage anyway. They probably wouldn't even notice the overhead.
With many, many servers, otherwise things would go down fast on each new video release. And each server having a fuckton of bandwidth, too. That's not free.
its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don't need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.
its fine if its first and foremost a backup, and not a public platform. then you don't need the bandwidth. then they can open it up when google deleted their channel. they still need to figure out the capacity issues, but at least the content was not lost.
These days I am looking at their video on their channel on Rumble while working. I think they are achieving financial and political pressure in the most wholesome way possible.
That said, I don't think I am going to click on anything else on Rumble, as it is all Tucker Calson, bitcoin and other shit like that. I don't see any future in it; it has achieved Dailymotion status in no time.