I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.

    • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Framing anti-monetization as a “tankie and anarchist” stanice is a bit disengenuos. I know that hosting costs money, but this can be handled through donations.

      Not everything on the internet needs to be a for-profit venture, archive.org and Wikimedia work just fine as donations supported NGOs.

        • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Like if I put $200,000 into a piece of work I need to have some guarantees.

          That’s called investing, and guess what, sometimes you lose on investments. If you want guaranteed income, you can be a salaried employee.

          I can’t put years of my life into a project that I need to make money off of, give it out for free and hope for donations. That’s insane.

          If the end goal is monetization, then say so upfront, don’t worm your way into communities and start hawking your wares. Again, not everything needs to be a profit making machine, volunteering, donations and non-profits exist.

          You know, people who do it for a living, who’d like to eat food and be independent rather than being stuck in some dreary ass company or under the thumb of Google. Ever consider that?

          Your personal ambitions are not a concern of me, or anyone else. You sound like the Lemmy community is putting a damper on your dreams of making it big (it’s never just about putting food on the table,right?). Maybe we want a place where we can talk to each other and not have ads shoved into our faces, like on every other platform?

          If you want to set up a commercial based instance, go ahead, just don’t be surprised if you don’t recieve a warm welcome.

    • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      One simple difference between a federated “video service” and stuff like mastodon/lemmy/etc. would be the vast quantity of bandwidth and storage required if the service got successful could push this well beyond goodwill and crowdfunding efforts. The amount of active user a single dollar (or whatever currency really) can support for a text based service, even with image hosting, is way higher than a video streaming service like youtube.

      • EnglishMobster@kbin.social
        6·
        2 years ago

        PeerTube is a federated video service, and one that’s been around longer than Lemmy.

        It gets around this problem by using Peer-to-Peer tech. Essentially, when you go on the site it uses your machine to send data to multiple other users, like how torrents work. The server still needs to exist, but load is lessened by offloading it to clients who seed data to others.

        • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          2 years ago

          The server still needs to exist

          Not necessarily. Consider Freenet:

          Unlike file sharing systems, there is no need for the uploader to remain on the network after uploading a file or group of files. Instead, during the upload process, the files are broken into chunks and stored on a variety of other computers on the network. When downloading, those chunks are found and reassembled. Every node on the Freenet network contributes storage space to hold files and bandwidth that it uses to route requests from its peers.

      • whats_a_refoogee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        No matter how good an AI is, it cannot restore details that were lost. It can approximate them, but if you have a 4k photo of a piece of paper with a small stick figure drawn on it and compress it to 144p, you will have a gray blob in its place at best or just nothing.

        The most advanced AI from 50 years into the future would still not be able to restore the original stick figure.

        • MelonTheMan@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          2 years ago

          hmm you’re right. What if we ditch the video entirely and they just enter a prompt of what the video should be and we generate it. With AI?