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Oh it definatly is a technology problem though. There well never be a federated Youtube for instance. Think about that the storage that Google uses since videos are not really deleted, and the bandwidth to server that much video. It doens't really scale with federation.
Until there is. Someday someone will create a PeerTube plugin or some other piece of software that will tackle this. I'm thinking distributed storage, automatic mirroring to other instances when more bandwidth is needed for a popular video, voluntary storage donation from clients (got 10GB of expendable storage on your device? Donate it to the network), or something I can't even think of. There are so many possibilities in this space. I won't accept that it'll never be possible.
No, the logistic problem Google "solved" in making YouTube functional and free was born from a time when dumptrucks of VC money made it viable. It will never happen again, regardless of innovation.
This is not a technical problem, and in the case of the YT monopoly, it's beyond even a people problem. Google got the money, and google won. It will be very difficult to unseat them.
IPFS backend and some automated pinning system for Peertube would go a long way to me
Peer to peer could solve the hosting/bandwidth issue. Just federate the network/index/front end for torrent-based streaming. Impose some ratio requirements for access and it's infinitely scalable
The simple solution is to just... stop using video so much. Video is riddled with problems as a long term human record, doesn't scale, increases perpetually in requirements without actually improving quality of CONTENT, isn't indexable or searchable, isn't easily translated into multiple languages, not as easily shared, not as easy to back up... Text is not obsolete. It was our main method of information transmission for tens of thousands of years, and NOTHING will convince me that it should be replaced as the primary method.
Again, it's a human problem. If humans accepted text and images again for the majority of information transfer, the problem would go away.
I've minimized my short form video consumption and reliance on Youtube for entertainment for this very reason. Podcasts are great to listen to when I'm doing chores
For someone who subbed to self hosted almost as soon as they joined Lemmy I am really conservative about what I host. I have tried to keep all media in jellyfin to keep things sinple. But recently I expanded to audiobookshelf and wow!
Ripped some of my audiobooks and added some podcasts and now we have a family library and everyone has their own progress and settings working across devices. I am still spending a lot of time consuming media but I think it's a much healthier balance.
I wish more people were like us on this matter, but they don't appear to be. People are using video for everything, regardless of how bad it is. One of the most popular genre of short form video is some well manicured person pointing up at some text that appears in the top of a video, set to terrible music. 20-100 words at most.
It's depressing how much history is going to be lost. Entire movements have been launched on videos that are now private or removed for copyright violations, and now they are gone forever to future historians. Even looking for information or knowledge now... 80% of your results are YouTube videos. All of that knowledge will disappear forever, and it doesn't even take a cataclysmic event - YouTube's search is so actively hostile that even if you know exactly the name of the video you're looking for, you will NOT find it unless it happens to already be algorithm aligned. YouTube is BY FAR a bigger danger to the throughline of history than ANY social media platform.
What about a system that works like torrents under the hood and every time you went to watch something you just download it with an expiry date?
You just need a metadata system like lemmy so people can find the videos, and once they decided to watch it, it downloads it for them via the torrent protocol.
The only disadvantage is that it won’t be streaming but let’s be honest, streaming isn’t a huge advantage for shorter clips + high bandwidth (which you need for streaming anyway).
You can also further optimize it by making each video cut into 5 min chunks so you can always download the first one and start watching sooner.
The only drawback, like others mentioned, is that it works best with a savvy user base instead of just spoon feeding you and giving you little control (which apparently people just love these days).