Self-hosting video sounds awesome, but it seems challenging if it were ever going to scale. Mastodon and Lemmy instances are already struggling hosting a social media platform. Streaming video sounds 1000x more difficult.
It eats up space and bandwidth. I imagine it could turn into a different model. Either the ads are directly tied to the streamer, or subscribe-to-watch.
Using something like BitTorrent could help mitigate some of the bandwidth costs, though.
Self-hosting video sounds awesome, but it seems challenging if it were ever going to scale. Mastodon and Lemmy instances are already struggling hosting a social media platform. Streaming video sounds 1000x more difficult.
It eats up space and bandwidth. I imagine it could turn into a different model. Either the ads are directly tied to the streamer, or subscribe-to-watch.
Using something like BitTorrent could help mitigate some of the bandwidth costs, though.