• non_burglar@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    The lift of running your own platform is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to creating your own video hosting platform.

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      3 months ago

      It’s not that challenging with a partner to help manage infrastructure which even at his scale is not going to cost an obscene amount of money.

      Edit: there’s a very massive difference between a single content creator hosting their content and a site hosting everyone’s content like YouTube as well in terms of cost, infrastructure, security and management.