I frankly don't see a way for federated video to happen unless uploads are severely limited or it's paywalled. Even with YouTube's wild compression, you're looking at several gigs for a single 4k video.

Honestly the fact that YouTube exists is a miracle. Video is still just monstrously large.

[–] Stan@lemmywinks.com 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Is size really the issue though? I can torrent more than I can store on my hard drives.

Seems like you could build a video streaming service on that. (Actually I think some people already did this.)

[–] Onurb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Well that's exactly what peertube does to distribute the load of serving the videos

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