Category talk:Video hosting

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Decentralized video hosting platforms.

There are some decentralized video platforms such as: *BitChute *BitTube *Viuly *D.Tube *PeerTube. They are less likely to go offline than e.g. Vanillo († 20190511) or VidMe(†20171215) due to , which lowers operational/maintenance costs. Especially https://BitChute.com/ appears established and stamina. Even big YouTube users (above 100000 subscribers) start mirroring their videos to BitChute. --ATrescue (talk) 10:58, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Decentralisation is funny because it simultaneously decreases and increases the risk of content loss. The network as a whole and popular content will be around for a long time, but individual instances and niche content can and do disappear constantly. See also: Fediverse, Mastodon. --JustAnotherArchivist (talk) 17:23, 15 May 2019 (UTC)
With BitChute, maybe BitTube (later bitlink, various renamings), I'm not sure nor aware that these are actually technically decentralized file-sharing/-hosting. Might be more of an impression/branding/claim? Maybe there's some validity to it, or could just have been a plan or claim at some point in time. Also, is not certain that in the end some of these just end up on AWS/S3. Not sure how to check/verify, if content gets delivered via HTTP per request on the DNS domain, so how much p2p/decentralized can it actually be, in a sense that's relevant and matters, practically? Can indeed be the case that some internal p2p hosting helps reducing the operational costs, but at some point somebody as to pay or seed/pin, and if there's no income or business model, it's kind of questionable if that's much different to regular hosting. Maybe they're internally benefiting to get onto some excess storage capacities somewhere. One big benefit might be with re-uploads across different sites, so per content-addressability, it might be less cost for many identical copies, but downside is less backups/copies. For archival, retrieving these per content-address/hash just requesting it via some protocol might be easier than the blockades put into WWW sites to get a feed/source. --Skreutzer (talk) 21:22, 1 September 2023 (UTC)

Commercial failures in video hosting

The "List of commercial failures in video hosting" draft seems to be gone and is therefore only kept in archived form. The latter lists some of the well-known prominent attempts, especially for user-generated content sites. But there have been, and likely must have been, a number of platforms which are largely forgotten, and are not in the category of hobbyist/volunteer site operators, but had a business goal or were a media experiment by a commercial entity. In Germany, Clipfish started with user-generated content. Or Tune.pk which offered an English UI. There's also a larger Arabic site (forgot the name), and because there's no English localization, these are rarely found on any of these video sites lists (and would be somewhat hard to use these via Google Translate or other). --Skreutzer (talk) 21:30, 1 September 2023 (UTC)