Comment on As a long-time user hearing YouTube wants to play ads when I pause a video
AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 2 months agoHere’s the thing about YouTube. From the very beginning, it was a video-hosting platform. Users create content. They upload the content to YouTube’s servers. Other users view the content, and upload their own. A simple formula, no? That’s why their pre-Google slogan was “Broadcast Yourself”. The thing is, storing video data long-term is expensive. This is where Google comes into play, because, unless you’ve got Google’s money, you cannot afford to store literally 100s of Yottabytes of video data, not for very long, anyway. Even if YouTube becomes a “mostly-worthless relic”, there’s nobody who can readily replace it.
mozz@mbin.grits.dev 2 months ago
Yeah. As with many things, "Can this make money?" is not the same as "Is this a nice thing to have around?" and the disconnect between the two when capitalism tends to assume they'll be the same thing, is a source of unhappiness in many ways.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Funnily enough, one of the things Reddit’s PCM community tried to push was the concept of nationalizing YouTube because “it’s a public service.”
They thought the average browser was too stupid to ask why all these Nazis wanted that, where all of a sudden the 1st Amendment actually comes into play, and now you can’t take down their blatant misinformation and hate speech.
bane_killgrind@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Hmm that’s pretty fucking clever for complete choads.
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 2 months ago
Idk. This was around all the drama of Trump getting banned from Twitter, and nationalization just isn’t something the forces of neoliberalism do. At least openly.
Ultragigagigantic@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good point, i never thought about that angle. Looks like the only option is self hosting then.