i mean youtube's entire profit problem is caused because their services are free

back in the day users just wouldnt use services if they had to pay for them

but now we have shit like Patreon, netflix, hulu etc.

pandora, spotify. . .

Web 4.0 could solve this by having companies compete for customers by offering hosting space for social media

the other idea is to simply make the creators pay a small fee to upload, and/or a scaling fee based on their subcount

which i think is fine, i'd pay $2 to upload a video

That still leaves a problem of the company needing to host everything

they can host everything as long as they have money coming in

I like my idea better

lol

charging creators would lead to higher quality content overall and less bandwidth use

youtube is storing years worth of crappy videos nobody will watch

well, idk what IPFS is

Distributed/decentralized servers

It's like a RAID cluster, but over many computers across the internet

you could simply make the creator use their own server

>simply

There's nothing simple about that on the front end

sure

thats why you have programmers

Look, you've got a guy that wants to just make videos. He doesn't have time to host things, or have a server that's constantly online, or set up an Amazon web server.

he can just rent a server

that server can set up something that complies with the platform's protocol for interfacing with the platform

Or, he can just upload to the website like normal.

*But the website is what is different.*

both parties meet each other halfway through cooperation

I agree

Most people can't handle YouTube as it is, the stress and having online presence

or again, the creator could just pay the platform for server space

most people arent youtube creators

if all they have to do is pay a monthly bill, they will be fine

Most people as in most youtubers lol*

yeah but they can pay a bill

or they could pay a cut of their ad revenue, which im sure they only get a tiny cut of in the first place on youtube

my main point is, youtube only doesnt make money because its free to watch and to upload to

and bitchute is only a shitty torrentbased site because they must have like no money

Here's my idea:

You've got a person who wants to watch videos
You've got a Web 4.0 social media host that keeps all your data for you, distributed among many servers that the company rents
You've got a video website
You've got a creator

The creator uploads a video pays for it to get hosted, and then the user watches the video. The user likes the video, and saves it to their host for seeding, which they pay for.

Now, the video is hosted from two seeds, the video site and the media host. The more popular it is, the more it's hosted, and eventually the creator no longer has to pay for hosting.

Uh, no.

Fuck you

users dont want to seed videos

Or pay to watch them. kek