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The decentralized web is growing (jlai.lu)
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[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Moreover, killing Youtube will be harder than killing any of these social media. Serving video content is very expensive.

[–] thawed_caveman 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The demands of video hosting is what makes me doubtful that decentralized YouTube could work.

[–] cmbabul 1 points 11 months ago

It could work if everyone that used it was interested in decentralizing it, but that seems impossible from my perspective