• catloaf@lemm.ee
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    8 hours ago

    some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos

    it’s called a CDN

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      8 hours ago

      CDN won’t scale to millions of users all uploading videos on a decentralized system. Article is specifically talking about AT Protocol which doesn’t account for video. Making a global CDN distribution of videos from decentralized sources is whole other ball of wax.