[ardfard]

> Does everything need to scale? I personally quite enjoyed the web back in the day where most communities were running on tiny boxes managed by a single hobbyist.

It's just not only matter of scale. I follow content creator that posted some of his content on his personal website. but man, the user experience is night and day compared to youtube. loading video is slow, cant fast-forward before hit buffering, also no content discovery either.

Paying for Youtube premium is no-brainer because i just get more value of it compared to even Netflix.

[lolinder]

Scale isn't a binary switch—Nebula's UX is very comparable to YouTube's, better in some ways. There's a space in the middle—between one guy's personal site and Google—where the platform has enough resources to get a decent experience.