• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      16 hours ago

      Theres a reason that youtube has no real competitor.

      because the amount of data that gets uploaded to youtube every day, every hour, is unfathomable.

      I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point. Just from a data center/harddrive point of view alone, the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it.

      There is no real way to compete with youtube directly.

      Only options are things that are not direct youtube competitors, Which are typically much smaller, possibly maintaining a narrow subject focus, and require monthly fees/subscriptions to access

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        7 hours ago

        the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it… FACK

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        I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point.

        There is. People just wouldn’t like it. Lowering the resolution and framerates massively to save on space. The nerds (derogatory) would trash the platform everywhere they can have a voice if it doesn’t support 4k 120fps, though.

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          7 hours ago

          Even if you limit it to 720p, if it were to be even a quarter as popular as youtube, the bandwith and storage requirements would still be astronomical.

          not to even mention the computational power required to process and transcode all that data from whatever format you upload it to, into whatever format the platform wants.