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  • I think the largest challenge though is maintaining the distribution and managing the associated upfront costs.

    Existing large content producers could likely afford to handle this but new producers could struggle paying to seed their content.

    Though I do think overall this is more achievable than people give it credit for:

    • YT videos don’t need huge bandwidth for a sustained period; only for short bursts. Most views come in within a week.
    • Content is probably localized to specific countries. Less need to replicate across the globe.
    • Let the source prefer to seed the highest quality and other peers downsample and replicate as needed.
    • Doesn’t need YT scale. Tons of YT “content” is spammers leeching essentially free hosting from YT. No one needs to seed their videos if they don’t want to.
    • 1080p is still fine for YT videos. h265 is very efficient (though downsampling 265 isn’t great). Don’t need 4k for most videos.














  • Not personal vehicles no. Half the pollution of a car doesn’t come out the tail pipe. EVs are a huge problem. Additionally the amount of EVs we’d need to make to compensate for all the cars out there is gigantic.

    There is no good environmental argument for every household to continue to own a personal vehicle and to maintain and build the insane amount of infrastructure they need.

    tldr; trains, buses, bikes unless there’s a specific need like for manual labor or going to very low population places