I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.
I prefer “list” view over grid view. Switching to grid view shows six videos before the break, but significantly less information about the video.
The thing is that video hosting is very expensive and only large companies like Google/YouTube can afford to do it at anywhere near their scale. You need multiple copies of every video all around the world to ensure they play well for users, with no buffering, and that much infra (servers, storage, high-quality bandwidth rather than just using Cogent everywhere, etc) costs a lot.
PeerTube exists (and has for a while). It’s a federated alternative to YouTube that uses torrents to share video, rather than centralizing it in one server.
The problem for creators is that they can’t make money off of PeerTube - thus there’s no incentive outside of making a Patreon.
Isn’t Youtube itself getting to that point too? The way lots of Youtubers complain about it and push their Patreons and alternative subscription streaming services (Curiosity Stream/Nebula/Floatplane/etc.), it sure seems that way.