[Barrin92]

centralized servers cost less to operate, that why data intensive applications centralize over time. That's division of labor. The higher the complexity the the higher degree of specialization. And a video service is very demanding.

And you need to solve the economics first because otherwise your decentralized service is simply going to centralize over time to deal with demands for a more reliable and higher quality service. (and how to compensate creators)

[verdverm]

This so much, the Tiktok clones in ATProto face this same issue and several rely on Bluesky CDN & VC funding to have an acceptable UX (in terms of just delivering video content)