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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Fair point, but the instance I use doesn't allow image uploads because of the disk space issue. Videos take way more space than that. And, of course, you can't just slap in a single drive, you need RAID or something so when a drive fails, you don't lose stuff.

Add in bandwidth concerns, and it's a legitimate question. Hosting a general video site can't be cheap, and people generally won't pay for it.

If we did want a community run video hosting site ala Lemmy, how would that work? What would it cost the hosters?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago

That's PeerTube. Idk what it's costing the hosts exactly, but my server is apparently bringing in enough in donations to be viable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Idk I don't really care that much about video content, so I'll leave that up to someone else to parse. If someone provides an entirely free, ad-free way to share videos, then great. If not, then oh well.