If it converts every video in realtime it will require a lot of CPU per server, it’s cheaper to store multiple copies. Also the average video isn’t more than some 300MB, less if it’s lower quality.
Anyone with Plex or Jellyfin knows that it’s better to have the same movie in both qualities (1080,720) the transconding to avoid CPU usage.
It’s possible to have fast transconding with GPUs, but with high so many users on youtube that will require a lots of power and high energy prices, store is cheaper.
Not only that but for each video on YouTube there are different versions for each resolution. So if you upload a 1080p video, it gets converted to 1080p AVC/VP9, 720p AVC/VP9, 480p… also for the audio.
If you run youtube-dl -F <youtube url>
you will see different formats.
Don’t know about Google (don’t use it) but already found some search results on Brave or Duckduckgo, without search operators (site:…)
And having multiple instances with specific theme (country, TV show, games) also engages people to post and comment more.
It’s like talking to people on your neighborhood while Reddit is nation wide and everything is seeking attention
Hosting videos requires a lot of storage, before reddit hosting images/videos most used services where imgur, streamable, gifycat…
On small instances hosting videos could be an issue with storage and bandwidth, hosting externally is always a best option
There are some forks trying to make that easier, like this one https://github.com/KhoalaS/Infinity-For-Reddit
And many will just move to oficial app
I had a post on frontpage, got 40k. And was invited to join two frontpage subreddits (lobby something).
I tough “oh my gosh, im famous”, but next day I just didn’t care about that anymore.
Ive almost 100K karma, but for what? What can I do with that? Save some pandas, send it Africa villages?
There are some apps for Android, mostly in alpha/beta https://lemmy.world/post/465785
Liftoff looks nice
IT’S ROBOT FIGHTING TIME
Another community to subscribe
Trying to browse Lemmy and 1 of 3 posts is about Reddit, and none of them are on !reddit@lemmy.ml or !snoocalypse@lemmy.ml
Lemmy for now is just a circlejerk about Reddit.
Made some posts about reddit on those communities and other news on others, but I see Reddit posts everywhere from c/tech to c/lennyworld, mods should review their rules and start redirecting posts
Unless you’re Trump and try to build a social network based on opensource software, and say that you made it.
Lemmy say that uses AGPL, so any changes to the code must be publicly available.
https://www.tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-affero-general-public-license-v3-agpl-3-0
There’s also a pull request https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3378