• Link@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    The other thing to consider is that the technology just doesn’t exist for there to be a viable ‘federated’ YouTube.

    Well, Peertube exists. But I agree it is very hard to get close to the amount of videos YouTube hosts without it becoming too expensive. But that is even true for companies like Google, which is why they are pushing these changes. It seems like people need to accept that a video platform must either show ads, make you subscribe, or receive substantial donations.

    I almost can’t believe Wikipedia is only 20GB btw. Does that include all the pictures on there?

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      1 year ago

      Does that include all the pictures on there?

      It can’t. 60 million odd articles with pictures only taking 20GB? I doubt it. Just the text taking up so few space that I can believe.

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      I almost can’t believe Wikipedia is only 20GB btw. Does that include all the pictures on there?

      That’s English compressed text only, decompressed text is closer to 90GB

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        1 year ago

        Which is still pretty low tbh, considering the massive amount of information on Wikipedia in English