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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Companies or creators can run their own instance can't they?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

AFAIK, it's still not had the code released, so at the moment there's just the one site and you can't host your own.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

They can. And if at any point it becomes untenable, you can just archive whatever you host, shut down your instance, and put the videos up for download somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

If a company is going bankrupt as a result of hosting a video service, they're not going to be able to afford to archive and make it available for download either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Archive storage is relatively cheap. It’s the bandwidth and compute required to serve video that is expensive