• cannedtuna@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    Honestly if someone remade an old YouTube alternative I think it would take off.

    It’s what I wish PeerTube was, but I’m not sure if that will ever take off sadly.

    Lack of advertising dollars is definitely an impediment to video platform alternatives…

    I remember a time when people just posted silly little shitty drawn videos just for the fun of it. Not saying creators shouldn’t be compensated for their hard work, I just feel like something was lost with the monetization of every little thing.

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        54 minutes ago

        People really fail to understand what a colossal undertaking a site like YouTube really is. It’s a technological wonder that they are able to process that much data and serve it so efficiently. Hate YouTube all you want, I do, but the engineers at Google are fucking magicians.

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          26 minutes ago

          Last I heard it was something on the order of 700 hours of video content uploaded per minute. Insane.