Resources cost money, hard drives get full quickly when storing videos in multiple resolutions. YouTube has enough money and are running ads so they are able to keep your videos for free “forever”. DTube is not backed by a monster company, so they have limited storage and rely on decentralised network of IPFS nodes to help with the storage. But again, hard drive will get full sooner or later I currently provide free IPFS pinning but my hard drive will be full and I might or not be able to afford an upgrade.
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I keep trying to explain this to people but I don’t think they like the explanation 😅
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That's the draw back of decentralised hosting, some people have to step up and contribute to the hosting.
That's the other thing I keep saying that people don't like XD
Buying fruits and veggies in a shop is easier than growing it ourselves. Chemical fertilisers are easier than organic compost. Same with centralised services vs decentralised ones. We give more power to people but that means they have to do more effort to use that power.
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I think I understand. I probably should put everything I want to keep on Youtube first until D.tube gets stronger. Your information is very helpful. Thank you.
You can still upload them to both and use the IPFS bot I mentioned in the post above to help keep your DTube video alive for longer. This way you can still get upvotes from the community.
I suggest you start with uploading to DTube first so that it is created before the Youtube version so people can't blame you from copy/pasting your own content from outside the blockchain.