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> A huge amount of videos on YouTube are created for their own sake, with no expectation of going viral or making money off them. It's estimated that there are
by jfdbcv 3y ago
> A huge amount of videos on YouTube are created for their own sake, with no expectation of going viral or making money off them.
It's estimated that there are 1 billion YouTube videos, compared to 600k videos hosted by PeerTube. Thats a 4 order of magnitude difference. Saying that PeerTube can "fill this role" is an outrageous assumption about scaling.
- handity 3y agoSure, I should have said "P2P based video sharing like PeerTube". The point is that for videos with no expectation of making money, P2P is a better model than YouTube, as it is both free and ad-free. I am not saying that PeerTube is better and that people should be using it. I am saying that it is worse, because of the way YouTube developed and made competition impossible.