Post #3285858

@notyourfanboy@kolektiva.social @Elindur@retro.pizza The first episode that came up on YouTube when I searched was How People Make Crayons. It's about half an hour long, and has amassed 12 thousand views in the less than a day it's been online. On YouTube, they can do that for a maximum cost of zero dollars and zero cents. If it was hosted by Cloudflare Stream, this single episode would already have cost them 360 dollars or so, assuming they had managed to get such a large audience to visit their website in the first place. Building bespoke infrastructure just to host Mister Rogers' Neighbourhood and nothing else would cost enormously more. And the bigger their audience grows, the more expensive self-hosting becomes, while YouTube's cost to the uploader holds steady at absolutely nothing. Don't get me wrong. I really, really wish they could. But the fact is, nobody has found a way to make online video work at scale yet without either charging the audience directly or throwing ads at them.