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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 days ago

I'm willing to sacrifice some of my valuable internet points here and be down voted to low hell.

I was going to make a comment along those lines.

They are, at the core, an ad company. Their motivation is to make money, and we are free to pay or not pay for their services.

The idea that we have a right to a non essential product for free is entitlement. They make a shit load of money, but also pay money to most content creators. Could they provide a service where they essentially just pay for costs? Sure, but no for profit Corp is going to do that, it has to make money somehow. While I'm all for peer tube, I really don't know if it's sustainable.

I wonder how many of the people who demand free access to services donate to FOSS Development.

Maybe some form of consumer co-op, where users essentially pay for operating costs, could be an option.