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In the case of a decentralized youtube, who would be responsible for the data storage?
Each instance, as with the rest of the fediverse. It already exists, btw. Look up Peertube if you're curious.
I didn't know about this, thanks for the heads up!! But, with this decentralized approach, if a peertube node "dies", could those videos be saved in a different node? I guess one of my biggest concerns with the fediverse is that fragmenting the network might also lead to fragility of content
Nope. If there's nobody to rip out physical storage and move it, it's gone.
Oof, that might be a solid roadblock limiting peertube/fediverse. Decentralization sounds great as a greediness deterrence system, but it also feels like lesser nodes will be more prone to stop maintenance over many years, making decentralize content more fragile than centralized. I wonder if a way to counterattack this is via enabling posts mirroring and content transfer among fediverse instances... 🤔
Otoh do we need perfect (or even good) persistence for the 36284th similar bbq tuto or some random-ass cat video?
I get that point! But imagine "ancient youtube history videos" like "chocolate rain" were hosted on an old and unstable peertube node. I would find it sad that a decentralized infrastructure erased old and historic eras of the internet. I'm not saying this just defeats the whole fediverse, I just find it a point of concern, I'm sure if it is really a problem the developers and community will find approaches to mitigate it!
(Btw, I'm not yet well informed about all the caveats/tradeoffs/unwritten rules of lemmy/mastodon/peertube when it comes to data storage, so maybe what I'm saying just doesn't make sense at all, correct me if I'm wrong!!)
My bet is that if a video is famous it's gonna get replicated. And if it doesn't, well, it will join the unending list of lost medias.
Anyway we just can't archive anything anyone produces forever.
Mhm, yeah, I guess
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