Message from @shadowedROM

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2016-09-21 18:54:48 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:54:51 UTC  

kek

2016-09-21 18:55:10 UTC  

i think google only uses youtube to gather info

2016-09-21 18:55:19 UTC  

like it only makes money because they have a huge platform

2016-09-21 18:55:26 UTC  

they lose money on youtube itself

2016-09-21 18:55:50 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:56:20 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:56:28 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:56:38 UTC  

probably.

2016-09-21 18:57:00 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:57:10 UTC  

so they can keep their losers segregated and understood

2016-09-21 18:57:35 UTC  

but that's wallstreetbets talk

2016-09-21 18:57:44 UTC  

ohhh

2016-09-21 18:57:46 UTC  

interesting

2016-09-21 18:58:35 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:58:50 UTC  

if u expect it to grow

2016-09-21 18:59:06 UTC  

nah you could

2016-09-21 18:59:23 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 18:59:53 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:00:13 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:00:31 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:00:35 UTC  

mods i mean

2016-09-21 19:01:00 UTC  

now, would you actually do it? probably not

2016-09-21 19:01:26 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:01:57 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:05:45 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:06:12 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:06:25 UTC  

politics

2016-09-21 19:06:42 UTC  

there are a ton of chink video sites though

2016-09-21 19:13:16 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:13:43 UTC  

http://openings.moe

2016-09-21 19:13:56 UTC  

^ one guy made that, the files are tiny

2016-09-21 19:14:30 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:15:21 UTC  

youtube is like geocities in its heyday

2016-09-21 19:15:32 UTC  

thats dope

2016-09-21 19:15:37 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:16:30 UTC  

that's just the way all shit works

2016-09-21 19:16:57 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:17:01 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:17:26 UTC  

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

2016-09-21 19:17:37 UTC  

targeted like niche sites or targeted like adsense ?