Thread 106229943

This isn't a joke idea. If anyone wants to take it, I'd be grateful for it. I suck at coding.

Basically, privacy is being threatened, and, if we allow youtube to get our IDs, who knows what other companies will ask for our personal-est info? We NEED competition.

We know the main problem with making a video hosting platform ANYONE can access is: money. It's expensive to host videos from all over the world. YouTube didn't even make a profit on its first years. However, what if, instead of hosting the videos on our own server, we made the users host their own?

Ok, hear me out: someone searches for a video on a database which contains the title for the video, the author, and an IP in which the video is found at. The database basically gets the video from a server the own publisher hosts, or pays to, and feeds it from the host to the viewer.

As for monetization, I think maybe banner ads for the main platform, while having the videos have as many -- Or as few -- ads as the video publisher wants. Doing this as a hobby, and don't want money for now? Put no ads. Doing this as a full-time job? Add a lot of ads. Just don't overboard it, since viewers probably won't watch your videos.

Please, if anyone wants to grab this idea, have it. Run with it. Make it as good as you can.

There's no way privacy will be a real thing if we don't act quickly.

>>106229943 (OP)
The reason you can't compete with YouTube isn't cost or technology, it's regulation. It's what every business races for; getting the government to regulate away your competition. It's death by a million cuts because you'll never get big enough to survive the blood loss.

i will make the logo

i will make the code of conduct

There is competition.
Bichute, bing video, odysee
But likd 4chan people wont move
Thd proper course if action is breaking up alphabet

>>106229943 (OP)
Do you really think millions of coders haven't thought of this decades before you? Do you think you are a genius or something?

>>106229943 (OP)
the new laws say no
any and all sites like this will require age verification

>>106229943 (OP)
the economics dont work. creators want to be on youtube because thats where the viewers are. you could do a private video host for companies, like office 360 videos, but the economics are small, you end up just being a commodity bitpusher

>>106229943 (OP)
>Odysee
>PeerTube
>Livepeer

>>106229943 (OP)
I don't get what goes through the minds of people with this new age of freedom absolutism that thinks that the internet is and should be out of reach of regulations. At the very bottom the internet infrastructure is a gov concession and there's nothing you can do about it.

>>106230941
Stfu Glowie

>>106229943 (OP)
you always have the best ideas friend