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8474_s | 5 months ago

So if you succeed, how the terabytes of content and bandwidth will be sponsored - by what? The only way i can think of it is some super-efficient neural codec with extreme video compression ratio that runs on mobile devices. Othewise Youtube wins by sheer scale google invested in it.

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kelvinjps10|5 months ago

Majors CDN already exists. They can build on top of cloudfare or Amazon services. If you think about it Amazon it's on a good position to build an alternative,they already have experience with ads and hosting video content

8474_s|5 months ago

AWS-based youtube would be astronomically expensive and much slower than dedicated video servers. Youtube shapes the entire internet total bandwidth.

fsflover|5 months ago

> how the terabytes of content and bandwidth will be sponsored - by what?

How does it work in the Internet itself? By decentralization, i.e., different servers serve their own small part. The same can work with the videos: see PeerTube.