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YouTube is so horrible now I hope it’s reaching the tipping point where even non tech people may get sick of it and look elsewhere. There is no reason to have ONE giant main fucking video site and that’s it for most of the English speaking world. I need to look up how to do grout…or open this smoke detector…or beat this video game…no reason that all these videos cannot be hosted via other websites or just self hosted with the affordability of bandwidth. I’ve loved most of what google has done for a long time and they won the browser wars, crushed Mapquest, destroyed hotmail and yahoo mail…now everything is turning to shit. Google search all but refuses to find what you’re searching for. 15 second video…30 second ad. No.
I don’t know if federation is the answer but YouTube being ubiquitous for internet video has got to go.
There's no shot youtube will be dethroned any time too. Hosting that amount of video is absurdly expensive.
Same is true about Reddit but we all here
It's not even close. Text and image content doesn't come near what YouTube has to deal with.
Reddit does have video, lemmy (at least for now) doesn't, and I'm sure a huge part of that is cost.
In saying we are here I’m not saying we are succeeding…I’m saying we’re trying
Eh, lemmy -> reddit is not without scaling issues, but reddit doesn't upload 10s of terabytes of video every day, much smaller infrastructure required than youtube.