Message from @Grenade123
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Google would keep YT even if it didn't make money ever, because it makes money on their other products
and the people to maintain that
traffic costs alone are huge
HD space for the video in 5 different formats is another
Bandwidth and server maintenance.
Google or Mirosoft put a sever at the bottom of the ocean to save on cooling.
well, i just figured out what the first instantiation on the moon will be
although thats not entirely accurate. space is rather hot for being so cold
Supermarkets are offering their frozen storage space to server providers. It's really expensive.
The coldest natural place in the sola system is on the moon. A creater on the northpole has never seen the sun.
first installation on the moon from private companies: a server farm
Let's start with Greenland shall we. And see how we go fro mthere.
i mean, why not start with the Antarctica? land has to be cheaper, less government regs, probably colder too
I don't think you're far from the truth there. Fast forward a few decades and you'll have power stations being commissioned there.
So it's clear that you can't make things 100% free like YouTube. Well, unless you are a data collection firm. But we all know how well people like those. So what about something in the middle. Free you get X amount of hours of free video hosting. Hit that limit, you need to free up space. The sell teirs or features. Because part of the problem with youtube is that probably most of the stuff it is storing, it's not get much if any traffic. So basically it's free storage.
Which is a major drain in resources.
a data collection firm like Discord
Like all free sites
Or you can have the YT that we have. A very rich company that realizes how important a site like YT is and writes off the cost as a charity.
They don't write it off as charity. It's overhead fr advertising.
A company could.
YouTube isn't important. We had tv and still do.
It's only popular because it is free, and people can make a living off it
But it's free because we are not the customer. Companies are
Which is why it keeps shooting it's creators because it's customers are being finicky
You have to pay to use the air waves. YT is important because it is free for everyone. TV has gate keepers. Thats why I think it would be good for a company to realize the good that YT brings and take it on as a charity. No need to worry about hit pieces. Although I'm not sure how long theses pieces will have any effect.
youtube has gatekeepers
Where are the gay traps?
It's Thursday. They take Thursdays off. Come back tomorrow.
YT has Gatekeepers. I didn't say it was perfect put a private company is the best way to run it. You can't have it ran by a government.
the only real way to not have gatekeepers is either through having lots of competition, or by decentralization. Which should be an option with block chain. make creators pay for storage of their videos. "want 50 gb for data? give me 50 gb on your machine. uninstall the app? fine, your channel goes down by how much space that machine gave me"
put all the cost on the people using the system
then there is no gate keepers.
actually, i wonder....
That is the other way to do it. But even a system like that runs into the gate keeper issue. There is maintainance of the coding and I'm all for free expression but I don't want to be chipping into a site that allows child porn on it.
maintenance of open source stuff is usually done by the people who use it.
YT is the second biggest search engine in the western world. I think it's to big to be run by bedroom coders.
first off: its google, not really youtube.
second: you underestimate the power of open source
O might be underestimating it. Google is #1 YT is #2