I make videos that are usually somewhere between 10-20mins long, and I know that video storage really adds up fast. My worry with things like this is that I basically can't afford to donate as much as I would be costing. But maybe there's some kind of relevant info on that somewhere that I just can't immediately see. Definitely worth an investigate, at least!
this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2023
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There's an About section, saying the instance has just under 1,000 videos, and is using about 250 gigs right now. (If you include federated videos, then it's 63,000 videos though lol.)
I agree with you here, it sure looks like being a new video platform is a very difficult game to play. And asking for people to donate to MakerTube specifically rather than any of the myriad of other peertube platforms seems like a very uphill battle too lol.
I do think that it would be good for all of us to get used to contributing to the operations costs of platforms where the users aren't the product. But yeah, there's definitely going to be growing pains lol.
So, update. I talked to the MakerTube admin over on Mastodon and they admitted that funding is pretty much always going to be a problem especially if popular creators join and make big videos. But they seem to be giving it their best shot, and I figured, what have I got to lose other than a bit of time and a few dollars in donations? So I'm giving it a whirl.
Just did a write-up of my impressions of the whole thing over at !peertube@lemmy.ml if you're at all invested!
Here's that write-up for future readers!
I was about to reply to that write up here but I'll reply in the correct comment section lol.
I never know whether adding the direct link will just annoy people on different instances, haha, may have a slight overthinking issue there. But thanks for adding it! :D
Yeah, I'm on kbin.social and for some reason we don't accept !community, only @community here. I just always link 'cause it's so hard to find stuff lmao.
One day we'll have truly seamless (non-janky) content conversion.
TIL! Thank you for the tip :)
Absolutely, I already donate to my three most used Lemmy servers and have actually been looking to get into PeerTube so I'd have no problem donating there too. Problem is I just don't know if my couple of dollars a month would equal a net loss.
Will come back and update this thread once I've found out!
Cool, and it federates. Not always a given.
Hehe *cough, cough* TILvids *cough*