I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

  • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    One simple difference between a federated “video service” and stuff like mastodon/lemmy/etc. would be the vast quantity of bandwidth and storage required if the service got successful could push this well beyond goodwill and crowdfunding efforts. The amount of active user a single dollar (or whatever currency really) can support for a text based service, even with image hosting, is way higher than a video streaming service like youtube.

    • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
      81·
      1 year ago

      PeerTube is a federated video service, and one that’s been around longer than Lemmy.

      It gets around this problem by using Peer-to-Peer tech. Essentially, when you go on the site it uses your machine to send data to multiple other users, like how torrents work. The server still needs to exist, but load is lessened by offloading it to clients who seed data to others.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        The server still needs to exist

        Not necessarily. Consider Freenet:

        Unlike file sharing systems, there is no need for the uploader to remain on the network after uploading a file or group of files. Instead, during the upload process, the files are broken into chunks and stored on a variety of other computers on the network. When downloading, those chunks are found and reassembled. Every node on the Freenet network contributes storage space to hold files and bandwidth that it uses to route requests from its peers.