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minus-squarekakes@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoLove how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
minus-squareBronzie@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYeah it costs, depending on quality of course. My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.
minus-squareWrench@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc. That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
minus-squarejonne@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoAll of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.
minus-squarebatmaniam@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoYeah like… Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but… It’s not 2005.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoBoth Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
minus-squareTja@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoNot only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThe entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive. Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
minus-squareIrelephant@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoThat is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
minus-squarecalcopiritus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 months agoI doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.
Love how they make this sound like some incredible feat. When you aren’t bound to license agreements, turns out it’s actually very easy to have a “massive” content library. Literally the only hurdle is storage space.
Yeah it costs, depending on quality of course.
My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.
I mean, distributing it isn’t a small feat. Plus you need to manage subscriptions, billings, CMS, a front end to navigate the content, etc.
That’s no small amount of work, even if they used out of the box solutions for many layers.
5 people could do it though.
All of those things already exist. Typically it’s just a Plex server running on a cloud service.
Yeah like… Netflix has peering agreements and whatnot but… It’s not 2005.
Both Wikipedia and Stack Overflow just have a few dozen fast servers despite being some of the world’s highest trafficked websites
Not only that, stackoverflow does it using windows! (or used to, at least)
The entire content of the wikipedia fits in a pen drive.
Streaming video is a lot more expensive than text and images.
That is just the text content, Wikipedia has pictures and videos as well. Not to mention the other Wikimedia projects
I doubt Wikimedia streams even 0.1% of what netflix does.