Sure it’s old but the stats I posted in a lower comment show that at YouTube’s scale, it makes sense to store.

Sorry didn’t mean to be rude was just being silly

Work in games is popular! For me it plays on the satisfaction of completing a project. A game that does this well I think is Satisfactory.

Post here anyway rule

For what other communities to post this in, maybe [email protected]. But this one is pretty good

Yeah I replied below with actual numbers

I think you might be underestimating how many users YouTube has! According to this, 720,000 hours per day are uploaded versus 1,000,000,000 hours are watched per day!

Do you have a source? My instinct is the opposite. Compute scales with users but storage scales with videos

Same I’m definitely a fellow normal person

Are you suggesting they don’t store different versions? This suggests they do.

I believe they store and that’s why it processes lowest res first and works up

I feel like the early adopters of lemmy are chronically online and shitposting keeps them sane

Are you wondering if one instance can be spread across multiple machines? I don’t think that’s possible and seems unnecessary. I say that because spreading users onto more instances creates less load on the larger instances, not more. Edit: I guess you can scale instances across machines!