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How do you feel about the massive influx of users?

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[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube is a tough one, because it actually pays content providers. Of course, I'm all for places like Peertube gaining popularity.

[–] Kurumatron@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, it's probably one of the hardest to replace, but I was thinking that it could be hard because of hosting the content

[–] DarkDarkHouse@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

You're right, storage requirements would be massive as well! On the one hand, a big corporation like Google would have the advantage of big datacentres, but community hosting seems to be able to seed a huge amount of data too. This one will be interesting to watch.

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think Nebula is already a step in the right direction even though it's not decentralized