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Well, who pays to host the videos? They eat up storage space and bandwidth.

Self-hosting seems to be the answer I always receive, but that just shifts the cost and effort to the person posting, which greatly raises the friction to post.

There's a reason why the companies behind this stuff are worth billions of dollars: they own and run gigantic server farms.
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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

bittorrent can work but the problem is incentives for running replicas, and that's a problem we can probably solve with NWC then the next problem is proof of service

arweave has been working on that sort of thing for their replicas, but their economics model in general is ugh

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Silberengel 9mo ago

Anything involving free computation and data transfer is a fairytale and probably run by the CIA. Just saying.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 9mo ago

yeah, or tavistock, and the front man reeked of it