• King@lemmy.world
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    There used to be a free youtube before google? Someone has to volunteer to pay for the site servers unless you pay them my ignorant bro. Youre always free to stop using the evil corporation sites but you want their stuff for free instead and complain about it. Get a grip

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        Youre the one begging them for free content here, stuff costs money get a job bum

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            No youtube for you then, being disabled doesnt mean the universe owns you free videos and you can insult others for reminding you that stuff costs money

            Edit money not even required just watch ads, the entitlement jesus

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                says the guy who insults me because he thinks universe owns him free videos for getting him disabled

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                Yeah bro just wanted to hear it, u cant help it with some people. " aakshually i cant walk no job for me so give me youtube" then u get called unpleasant for not agreeing

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          I literally don’t have a job and host a website with 249971 requests served april-october. This shit isn’t expensive, google makes it expensive. Before YouTube we just had other websites with videos.

          e: I got it wrong, it’s 525154 (valid) requests april-october with 85340 unique IPs after filtering my own.

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            “Videos always existed on internet” People upload 500 hours of video to youtube per minute how simpleminded are you Jesus Christ

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              Because it’s the video platform, King.

              By your logic, my website shouldn’t exist because it’s too expensive. By your logic, videos didn’t exist before YouTube. You are at odds with reality.

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                Wow your reading comprehension is astounding, ill try to use as few words as possible, more videos = more money needed to host them

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                  Who was it that told you YouTube was so expensive to run? Google? I couldn’t imagine why the company, with a vested interest in making you think ads are essential, would tell you that YouTube is like super duper totally expensive.

                  Please explain to me how it is that my website, despite serving lossless music and video streaming and a photogallery, doesn’t actually cost me anything except the electric bill which is so negligible that I don’t even bother considering it in my low-income no-job budget. I would love to hear why this isn’t possible.

                  I, too, remember the days before YouTube where videos literally did not exist on the internet! So innovative of Google, inventing video hosting.

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                    Storage isn’t cheap

                    Network bandwidth isn’t cheap

                    Data centers aren’t cheap

                    Add on Electricity, Transcoding, Multiple AZs, Backups, cached content with ISPs and engineer salaries and you’ve got a very expensive system.

                    That’s not even factoring in payments to creators, which are necessary if you want people to make quality content for the platform.

                    Your website serves multiple orders of magnitude less traffic than a single YouTube page. Web costs aren’t linear. It’s an S-Curve where it’s incredibly cheap to get started, but gets exponentially more expensive until you’ve reached some level of critical mass where revenue exceeds costs.

                    Video hosting pre-YouTube was terrible. It barely existed, and it wasn’t accessible. They sure didn’t invent it, but they made it possible for the masses to host video.

                    No other web content platform has taken off since YouTube. There’s a reason for that, and the majority is cost. To reach a widespread audience you have to invest hundreds of millions into infrastructure. Same reason Twitch still has the critical mass of livestreamers.

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                    I already covered those points in my previous comments: 500 hours uploaded per minute, more videos = more money needed to host them. I can’t dumb it down further, sorry