• @nuzzleratEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    I need to know how they are handling the server costs involved… even if you host your own instance for just your own uploads, you are still going to be paying a lot whenever people are watching those videos, no?

    Video is a way different ballgame than regular social media imo

      • Timwi
        2•1 year ago

        BitTorrent requires people to be able to connect to each other directly. In a world where almost every home user is behind a router that does NAT, software is no longer able to just open a TCP connection because that requires a publicly open port. I realize that for desktop software some elaborate tricks exist to circumvent this, but how would a website be able to do that?

      • @nuzzleratEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I had a feeling they might. It’s likely the only way to make it possible but it is not without faults either.

        Thanks for the info, I’ll look into it more!