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Re: PeerTube v6

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> Not sure what controlling the user's entire tech stack even means then. Hardware and software they are running as well as bandwidth available to them both at home offices as well as on site offices. So yes just directly serving whatever bitrate video would be equivalent to YouTube 1080p internally as the only option is just fine since even if it's less bandwidth I don't think any of my users would want to be watchi…

> > Also it's free to stick the video on YouTube as an unisted video and embed the player... Yeah, right. What can go wrong uh... Naturally a lot, but for a company that won't pay the actually low rates a SaaS provider charges for this, this would work just fine... Also why I mentioned that there are SaaS providers that do offer that which is a little more reliable. I believe one if them is the new up and coming one…

Well, MS, Amazon and Youtube/Google are big no-no for that company at the moment (and for the foreseeable future).

Thing is it's not about any SaaS provider rates, it's about ethical concerns but then we hit bandwidth cost problems. We'll see how it turns out.

Re: PeerTube v6

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post #192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> > Also it's free to stick the video on YouTube as an unisted video and embed the player... Yeah, right. What can go wrong uh... Naturally a lot, but for a company that won't pay the actually low rates a SaaS provider charges for this, this would work just fine... Also why I mentioned that there are SaaS providers that do offer that which is a little more reliable. I believe one if them is the new up and coming one…

Well, MS, Amazon and Youtube/Google are big no-no for that company at the moment (and for the foreseeable future). Thing is it's not about any SaaS provider rates, it's about ethical concerns but then we hit bandwidth cost problems. We'll see how it turns out.

I'm down for idealogical reason, in that case fo ahead.

It's fun doing it yourself, it's just not good business in general.

Honestly if any business is already paying for M365 of G Workspaces there is absolutely no reason to deploy your own video infra, you likely are already paying for video infra.

Re: PeerTube v6

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I love the idea of this project. But unfortunately there are economic reasons that make PeerTube unlikely to win. It's not even about the cost of video hosting, it would apply even if hosting was free. Imagine yourself as a popular creator. You can put up your videos on an ad-free platform where users can watch them without distractions and be happy. Or you can put them on an ad-supported platform and get a cut of th…

I don't want for-profit content anyways so Peertube is perfect for me.
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