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i think the solution could be a FOSS torrenting site where everyone hosts their own videos (or maybe a stream only site?). people are already willing to fork over for netflix so maybe if the content quality was extremely high theyd shift (e.g. nebula)
Yep, this is already a solved problem via torrents. All that's needed is a site (like lemmy or something else) to host the links, and help with content discovery.
dessalines can you make a poetry community on lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.ml/c/poetry
oh what weird i thought i had looked it up, thank you!
Nebula could be a good case study in how well this would work. The content on there is of exceptional quality. To be honest, though, that's not always what I'm looking for. Sometimes I just want a bunch of garbage rather than a little high quality content. The big social media platforms put a bunch of it in one place. I know it's not really a good thing, but sometimes I just need background noise while I do other shit and random YouTube videos really does it for me.
I can't seem to find any data on how much of Nebula's revenue is actually due to the Curiosity stream tie-in, but I know even I was wary of the $5/mo subscription without the CuriosityStream sub to sweeten the deal. So maybe even the world's largest creator-owned streaming platform needed that investment.