For both users and content creators to actually use alternative platforms. Platforms like Odysee and Rumble exist but, for the most part, only “certain types” of people actually use them at the moment, which currently turns off most of the people that would be otherwise interested in using them.
There are some good content creators who use them, like how SomeOrdinaryGamers has a channel on Odysee, but one or two content creators isn’t going to be enough to make the platforms pop off.
Billibilli will outside your region, but it’s going to be like 20 years lol. Maybe a completely different platform. Google needs to make a series of inevitable dick moves such as forcing logins.
That people becomes willing to pay for the services they need - and that someone NOT greedy makes that service…
First and foremost: about 10-20 Exabytes worth of storage space, or roughly 4 Petabytes per day.
That’s 4,000,000 Gigabytes of new video per day.
And of course you’d need an efficient way of loading all that video data and streaming it to the end users, so they don’t experience major interruptions, even when hundreds of thousands of people are all watching the same video at the same time. Youtube does this with caching servers/proxies, and highly optimized data delivery algorithms.
Once you have all that infrastructure, just make sure it’s free and ad-free for all the watchers and uploaders. It’s not like you need to pay for all those servers and storage… right?
Best I can do is three over worked tech drones in a trenchcoat who’ll work on this project in their spare time.
What about 2 Raspberry Pi 3s?
It’ll have to do.
Engaging algorithm, no paywall, funding or monetization strategy, viewpoint diversity, and a large amount of people already using it
Honestly? Hundreds of billions (maybe trillions) of dollars to invest in engineering, infrastructure, staffing, creator incentives, marketing, etc.
You’re talking about taking on a household name that has 2.75 billion monthly active users. That’s more than a quarter of the humans on this planet, and probably some in space too. They make over $50 billion dollars a year to make sure their competition is absolutely crushed.
Realistically though? Enforcing antitrust laws.
A Great Firewall so that domestic video hosting services can be developed.
YouTube is popular because it gives creators a way to get paid. So a new service would need to offer some of that.
