As people are pointing out, videos are very large files, and therefore very expensive to host. The fediverse can mitigate this a little bit, as everyone can host their own videos on their own server, but that's not enough, and extremely inconvenient.

I do wonder if the blockchain/torrents can be used here... I'm not a dev or anything so IDK how any of it really works, but I think something to that tune is gonna be the only way, since traditional servers don't seem to be viable.

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[–] Lamy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 14 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What replaced Facebook?

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[–] sol@thelemmy.club 13 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Peertube already exist. If you have to upload a video to show someone on the internet it's already more convenient than youtube as you don't have to login and access with google accounts.

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[–] NeroToro@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (27 children)

So for twitter it's mastodon, for reddit it's lemmy, for youtube odysee maybe, but what is it for facebook?

[–] csolisr@social.azkware.net 13 points 2 years ago

For YouTube it's PeerTube and for Twitch it's probably OwnCast

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[–] JoYo@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 years ago

even google is having a difficult time hosting video.

[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 years ago (16 children)

Am I the only one who thinks once something becomes a monolith of a platform, then it should be regulated (or dare I say), nationalized/ turned into a non profit?

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