Probably the latter. There’s tons of logistical issues with trying to compete against YouTube, even without considering its monopoly; mainly, storing and hosting all that data requires enormous servers, and along with that is the cost of doing so. Then there’s moderation issues; checking each video as it comes in to make sure it’s not violating copyright laws or otherwise infringing terms of use, etc. Plus having enough staff to maintenance the servers and provide moderation. YouTube is already struggling with all of these, despite how enormous Google is; if I remember right, they actually lose money keeping YouTube both afloat and free.
If YouTube shut down today I’m sure someone would eventually try to create an alternative and might even succeed (provided they have enough resources), but right now since someone else (Google) is already taking on that ludicrously insane job, I doubt there will be any form of viable or worthwhile alternative.
I don’t think you actually need to compete against Youtube to be a viable alternative. It doesn’t seem like it matters that Peertube has 0.001% of the userbase as Youtube because the goal isn’t to make money. If I want to host a video to share with people I can put it on Peertube right now and give people a link. I’d call that a viable alternative.
I think the idea is that it is at least similar in feature set. The only part that PeerTube doesn’t have is that it doesn’t have the number of users and revenue for scalability. I’m just saying that if you had a Youtube like website it doesn’t need to compete with Youtube to be viable.
Probably the latter. There’s tons of logistical issues with trying to compete against YouTube, even without considering its monopoly; mainly, storing and hosting all that data requires enormous servers, and along with that is the cost of doing so. Then there’s moderation issues; checking each video as it comes in to make sure it’s not violating copyright laws or otherwise infringing terms of use, etc. Plus having enough staff to maintenance the servers and provide moderation. YouTube is already struggling with all of these, despite how enormous Google is; if I remember right, they actually lose money keeping YouTube both afloat and free.
If YouTube shut down today I’m sure someone would eventually try to create an alternative and might even succeed (provided they have enough resources), but right now since someone else (Google) is already taking on that ludicrously insane job, I doubt there will be any form of viable or worthwhile alternative.
Then again, I’m not an expert on the subject lol.
I don’t think you actually need to compete against Youtube to be a viable alternative. It doesn’t seem like it matters that Peertube has 0.001% of the userbase as Youtube because the goal isn’t to make money. If I want to host a video to share with people I can put it on Peertube right now and give people a link. I’d call that a viable alternative.
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I think the idea is that it is at least similar in feature set. The only part that PeerTube doesn’t have is that it doesn’t have the number of users and revenue for scalability. I’m just saying that if you had a Youtube like website it doesn’t need to compete with Youtube to be viable.