• Zwrt@lemmy.sdf.org
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    6 hours ago

    Can someone explain me why creators cant do both? Reupload a mirror on peertube.

    Its in their interest to have a solid backup when youtube inevitably dies.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      2 hours ago

      It’d be dangerous to his revenue stream.

      If he reduces views on YT, the algo will recommend him less. His internal sponsors won’t pay more for the non YT content so he’ll just be gutting his own traffic if it takes off. Assuming he has disks around with all his finished content on it, he could stand it up later if he wanted, but it’s not like Peertube can host an unlimited amount of video for free. Someone is paying for those disks and for the transfer of those bits.

      Ideally, he’d stand up his own PT and we’d share in watching his stuff and reduce costs Peer style. But he’s still going to be out a serious payment stream and the PT network can’t just perpetually bare the cost of his storage.

      It’s like if LMG wanted to host their back catalog, we’d need peer tube hosts with a PB of storage sitting around ready to take his catalog.

    • OboTheHobo@ttrpg.network
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      5 hours ago

      That’s definitely an option. It would be a good idea for him to do that, I think. But my main point is that losing YouTube would be devastating for GN regardless of whether or not they’re on peertube, and moving entirely to peertube isn’t really feasible for them