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[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

You're asking someone who'd spent a good chunk of my life creating Skyrim mods for free and volunteering for services in my community with no recompense or desire for money how I expect people to contribute things they presumably enjoy without getting paid? To be clear, you're asking me this from a server on a federated platform that is held together with community love and free-will donations?

I know we've been conditioned by capitalism to reduce everything to its monetary worth, but I feel like we should know better here.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Fair point, but the instance I use doesn't allow image uploads because of the disk space issue. Videos take way more space than that. And, of course, you can't just slap in a single drive, you need RAID or something so when a drive fails, you don't lose stuff.

    Add in bandwidth concerns, and it's a legitimate question. Hosting a general video site can't be cheap, and people generally won't pay for it.

    If we did want a community run video hosting site ala Lemmy, how would that work? What would it cost the hosters?

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