Substack for Videos?

Question

People host their blogs independently so that they can be sheltered from Big Tech Influence. Given that Youtube has increasingly taken non-creator friendly decisions, Are there any companies doing this for Videos as well?Edit: Not the other aggregator sites like Vimeo, Dailymotion but which only provides the software to self host.

smoldesu · Accepted Answer

I don't think Substack counts as "hosting [your] blogs independently".
> Are there any companies doing this for Videos as well?
There were a few; Vimeo, Dailymotion, Floatplane, Nebula... they all suffered the same fate though.
It's not hard to see why, either. Transcoding video is expensive. To deliver a YouTube-like experience you have to be certain that each user will be profitable somehow, something that is easy with ads but hard with any other model.

PaulHoule · Answer

AMZN has a video hosting solution built into the CloudFront CDN, as a programmer it looks pretty easy to use but I think the average muggle would be perplexed by it.It&rsquo;s kinda expensive but any honest (not YouTube) solution is going to require you to have a real answer for &ldquo;where is the money going to come from?&rdquo;

nathants · Answer

here is a video served from cloudflare worker+r2. lines of code to serve this is probably 100.
free for small usage, typical cloudflare fees for large usage. very reasonable either way.
https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/only_up.mp4

IronWolve · Answer

Locals or Substack with Rumble backend for videos seems to be an alternative.

Substack for Videos?

here is a video served from cloudflare worker+r2. lines of code to serve this is probably 100.free for small usage, typical cloudflare fees for large usage. very reasonable either way.https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/only_up.mp4

Locals or Substack with Rumble backend for videos seems to be an alternative.

here is a video served from cloudflare worker+r2. lines of code to serve this is probably 100.
free for small usage, typical cloudflare fees for large usage. very reasonable either way.
https://r2.nathants.workers.dev/only_up.mp4