like. Do it like Telegram does it, where there's no server-side re-encoding and it's just a file size limit. I feel like that must cost less overall to implement, you remove the compute power cost and then it's just bandwidth.
Hell make it pay-per-upload or something. If I have to pay $2 to upload a video with a maximum size of 200mb I'll do it. I will do it, I say.
It would also make uploading videos much more purposeful and intentful, and therefore each video you encounter more special and hopefully creative and thought out.
also not re-encodind would allow me to upload actually decent quality stuff recorded at 480i60 because every other website on the planet compresses that stuff to hell and I think when the bitrate is actually decent 480 can look really nice
$1 per 100mb of video. I'm calling it right now. It would be way more sustainable and it would mean the platform would likely not be spammed with meaningless guff taking up server space and wasting bandwidth for users. It's an idea!
