Posts by Chozo@kbin.social
(DIR) Post #AYqfrO9cqZJeJQuBv6 by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-08-18T05:21:52+00:00
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You're a mod for this community, right? I'm not sure if this would work, but if you were to add an NSFW tag to this post, I think that should federate over to Kbin, which will at least blur out the thumbnail for us.Though that may also end up hiding the post from users who have NSFW disabled on their accounts, so it might not be worth doing.EDIT: I realized that the way I phrased this may have seemed unnecessarily confrontational with the "You're a mod, right?" part. Sorry if it came across that way! I didn't mean for it to sound like "You're a mod, right? Do something!" lol
(DIR) Post #AZNN5MadyNZMbQAdZw by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-09-02T22:01:37+00:00
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Watch the users somehow find a way to blame "woke left cancel culture" for this, instead of blaming the man who famously never pays his bills.
(DIR) Post #AaqUgyY8mjceaJTW2y by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-16T23:55:30+00:00
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@tilvids Bad take, imo. YouTube already ran at a net loss for about a decade before ever having a profitable quarter. Video hosting is an incredibly expensive endeavor, especially for an enormous platform like YouTube which allows users to upload nearly unlimited video data at no upfront cost. Just because Google has a lot of money doesn't mean that they can sustain a massive platform like YouTube at a loss forever, nor should they have any obligation to do so.If anything, the poor playback quality, long buffer times, and lack of moderation and copyright enforcement on PeerTube are excellent examples of why cheap video hosting doesn't work, even at the much smaller scale that PeerTube operates within. I think what you want is a smaller-scaled platform, which PeerTube is good for. But that's not the type of product YouTube is, nor should they aim to be.
(DIR) Post #AaqdCixf4pgj8d3uV6 by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-17T02:57:31+00:00
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@tilvidsThe reason YouTube is so expensive to run is because of its centralized nature.I think it has more to do with maintaining a massive CDN with hundreds of server farms caching content for a worldwide userbase so that users can watch a video that was uploaded on the other side of the planet without having to buffer. Plus maintaining their social features, extended editing tools, notification services, paying moderators, handing copyright claim issues, etc.Sometimes there's actually more to the story than just "corpo bad".
(DIR) Post #Aaqj6cb2QbDRNwxAqO by Chozo@kbin.social
2023-10-17T03:57:03+00:00
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@tilvidsYour instance also has like 1% of the functionality that YouTube does. No immediate user registration, no integration into third-party platforms, no TOS, no copyright enforcement, no auto-captioning, no playlist support, no support for "shorts"/"stories"-formatted content, no interactive functions like in-video cards, no rental/purchase options, no partnerships with studios and other rights holders, limited livestreaming options... etc. The list goes on.Not saying any of this to try to dunk on TILVids or PeerTube in general, just saying that we're talking about two wildly different product types, which cater to two wildly different audiences. YouTube is providing an order of magnitude more features and functionality to their platform than what PeerTube is currently capable of. The business models that work for PeerTube aren't really comparable.The SOPs that work for your platform are nigh impossible to work for YouTube. It's like the difference between a local crokinole tourament compared to the NFL.