The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website – with no identity verification (for now at least)

      • late_pessimistic@slrpnk.net
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        7 days ago

        This won’t help PeerTube become mainstream either.

        Hosting videos is extremely expensive, thus there is a financial incentive against hosting a PeerTube instance.

        Unless PeerTube fixes the incentives, it won’t be sustainable long-term.

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          7 days ago

          They should do something like Nebula. A subscription maybe in cryptocoins so you still get privacy over your credit card.

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        8 days ago

        It’s more that (as I understand it) the storage requirements increase exponentially relative to the number of users.