• Telorand@reddthat.com
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    19 days ago

    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.

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      19 days ago

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

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      19 days ago

      I think this could lead to bigger activity pub instances collecting revenue for allowing company owned instances to federate. aka ad revenue.

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        19 days ago

        Could you explain that idea in more detail? I’m not really sure I understand how that would work in practice.

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          19 days ago

          Private instance for company/creator: Hey, can we federate with your instance?

          Large public instance: pay me.