• Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    If you tried to create a centralized one? Yeah, it would take a lot. Would a decentralized one be as expensive? I’m not sure.

    I think the best goal would be to try to create a platform for creators that has a low barrier to entry - both in terms of cost and skill - that gives them the ability to easily and quickly set up a “channel” to “broadcast” from and earn some revenue somehow.

    Why build one competitor to YouTube when we could build a billion of them?

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      7 months ago

      Why build one competitor to YouTube when we could build a billion of them?

      Because thats the very reason why people hate current streaming services, and you’re arguing to not only make it worse than that, but to make the end users eat the costs of storage and bandwidth.

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        7 months ago

        You don’t understand why people hate streaming fragmentation.

        You can have a billion decentralized openyoutube all on the same page, just look how lemmy already does it.

        Podcast also did it with RSS. Agglomeration isn’t an issue on a decentralized open platform

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        7 months ago

        If they shared the same protocol, or at least reasonably compatible versions of it, you could have one app that does all of them.