I didn’t say it’s charity. I said the video creator (who wants people to see their video) is receiving a service from the video host, which otherwise they would have to pay for. Hosting your own video on your own storage and network bill is not free.
If they didn’t think they were receiving any benefit, they would just take that video down.
I didn’t say it’s charity. I said the video creator (who wants people to see their video) is receiving a service from the video host, which otherwise they would have to pay for. Hosting your own video on your own storage and network bill is not free.
If they didn’t think they were receiving any benefit, they would just take that video down.
They don’t.
I know this is true but why do I see so many people on lemmy pushing for self-hosting and even talking about it like its some low rent hobby?
It’s not exactly an expensive hobby, but it’s also not free.
YouTube hosts a lot of videos.
And — by the fundamental theorem of financial calculus that I just made up — “not free” times “a lot” equals “big bucks”.
Finally, someone who gets my idea of math.