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[โ€“] Nyxicas@kbin.melroy.org 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

People don't want to deal with the heavy costs and load of hosting their own content. That's unfortunately the sacrifice. Google is big enough to house it all, whereas, we'd probably see content from a creator last for a finite amount of time before they end up having to close up shop or beg for donations.

[โ€“] Tja@programming.dev 4 points 1 day ago

Beg for donations? How is being paid for your work "begging"?

As you said, hosting video is not only complicated but just fucking expensive, that's why people don't do it themselves. Google pays for it via ads/premium, not by magic pixie dust.