the owners will be tempted to make the site PC like youtube

kek

i think google only uses youtube to gather info

like it only makes money because they have a huge platform

they lose money on youtube itself

i don't even pretend to understand how google makes money anymore. they just do

youtube costs so much to host i heard it loses lots of money

i'm sure there's a logical explanation but everyone just says "ADSENSE YO"

probably.

Alphabet might literally just be a mandate of the accounting department.

so they can keep their losers segregated and understood

but that's wallstreetbets talk

ohhh

interesting

im js itd be hard to start a youtube alternative from nothing

if u expect it to grow

nah you could

bandwidth has gotten cheaper and you could put some limits in to save b/w

for example you could mandate that people use your encoder and do h265/vp10 encoding on THEIR machines using your client and save a ton on compute alone

spread your vids across low cost providers and make a rough and tumble cdn of sorts

the labor is the worst part but you could make that more streamlined

mods i mean

now, would you actually do it? probably not

and yes i'm mentioning encoding formats that don't work in current browsers cause if you do it today you're gonna aim for 2+ years in the future

and the bandwidth savings alone would get you a little bit ahead, which is kinda cheating and being the more agile guy

the reason that new sites don't pop up like mushrooms is more because when shit becomes a utility like yt is, the work vs reward becomes so small that nobody cares anymore. but look at little things like openings.moe for an example of what a targeted application of a similar use case would be, a simple illustration of an analogue to the relationship between a smaller entity solving a smaller problem that the larger utility just isn't designed to

what reason a shitty company like VEVO can't do the same? lack of imagination

politics

there are a ton of chink video sites though

what does the 'look at little things like openings' part mean ?

http://openings.moe

^ one guy made that, the files are tiny

on the other hand vevo hosts their shit on youtube... for various reasons

youtube is like geocities in its heyday

thats dope

the future of video sites is going to be a lot of targeted video

that's just the way all shit works

oh yeah for sure... im sure they already do some of that

there's no incentive in being first to build the most awesome utility

otoh it's pretty dumb to build your foundation on someone else's shit

targeted like niche sites or targeted like adsense ?