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What I don’t get is why spend the effort dealing with YTs shit just to increase their userbase when we should be focusing on shifting people away from YT and into decentralized solutions like PeerTube anyways?
Because Google is eating the monumental costs of hosting and delivering video content. The cost of maintaining client apps is negligible in comparison. YouTube is not going anywhere unless Google deems it so, or enshittifies it enough to drive users away.
As i always said, people will go joyfully if someone can selfhost WHOLE YouTube content out there, YouTube became modern library of Alexandria while main page is shit and giggles, there’s a lot of useful tutorials and education videos
What I don’t get is why spend the effort dealing with YTs shit just to increase their userbase when we should be focusing on shifting people away from YT and into decentralized solutions like PeerTube anyways?
Because Google is eating the monumental costs of hosting and delivering video content. The cost of maintaining client apps is negligible in comparison. YouTube is not going anywhere unless Google deems it so, or enshittifies it enough to drive users away.
Given their extreme efforts to monetize YouTube, I’d be surprised if it was still operating at a loss.
As i always said, people will go joyfully if someone can selfhost WHOLE YouTube content out there, YouTube became modern library of Alexandria while main page is shit and giggles, there’s a lot of useful tutorials and education videos