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[–] squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

There well never be a federated Youtube for instance. Think about that the storage that Google uses since videos are not really deleted, and the bandwidth to server that much video.

Until there is. Someday someone will create a PeerTube plugin or some other piece of software that will tackle this. I'm thinking distributed storage, automatic mirroring to other instances when more bandwidth is needed for a popular video, voluntary storage donation from clients (got 10GB of expendable storage on your device? Donate it to the network), or something I can't even think of. There are so many possibilities in this space. I won't accept that it'll never be possible.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

IPFS backend and some automated pinning system for Peertube would go a long way to me

[–] non_burglar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

No, the logistic problem Google "solved" in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.

This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it's beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won. It will be very difficult to unseat them.