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Anki, Calibre, MuseScore are examples of Qt apps from FlatHub not using Breeze, I'm not aware of any way to fix this and FlatHub maintainers just reply "we stuck to whatever upstream does".

Instead VLC is an example of Qt app from FlatHub that uses Breeze in Plasma.

Flatpak should have a way to detect the current session is Plasma, install KDE runtime or whatever is needed and makes all its Qt apps use whatever QtWidget theme the user set. Otherwise the Flatpak Qt apps (or at least FlatHub's in case we come up with a Flatpak repo optimized for Plasma) would always be second-class citizens.

For me the key is WebMonetization, if it will partially replace the advertising on the Web there are more chances that casual users will stream microdonations to PeerTube content creators automatically while watching their videos.

Coil's implementation of WebMonetization already let its users support Twitch channels with microdonations. Imagine if at a certain point YouTube supports ad-free version of its videos if the user is streaming microdonations with WebMonetizarion. And most other premium Web services do the same, for example newspapers. At that point the WebMonetization userbase would be so huge that PeerTube instances can be supported by most of their visitors.

Roughly ~20-80 GB/week resulting after a couple of years in ~100-200$/month

The monetization can be made with the upcoming WebMonetization plugin.

The industry already provides storage on demand, see Amazon S3. I don't think someone can build something better and convenient enough, the maintainance costs are huge too.

A YouTube channel with a few hundred subscribers may be able to make its PeerTube instance affordable if WebMonetization spreads enough and uses the PeerTube instance to deliver premium content and thus bypass YouTube's membership system.

But providing the video upload service publicly to anyone like YouTube does is impossible because there is no such thing as Google's ad system. Maybe in the future when the vast majority of users will have WebMonetization enabled.

I love Flatpak but FlatHub is too much GNOME-centric, for example if you install Qt apps from FlatHub on Plasma they won't even use Breeze theme by default.

In general there is too much stuff that is not available on Flatpak. Another example are all the addons available at store.kde.org that would be a perfect use case for Flatpak. And again I don't know how sandboxed apps should be made aware of system settings changes.

If Flatpak wants to improve it just have to think outside the GNOME box.

Using a different file system can increase the performance but it doesn't provide extra storage...

*why

Ha, it's Lemmy slur filter, it does replace "r-e-t-a-r-d-e-d" with "removed".

This is way I often said this slur filter is a dumb idea.

*not "removed" but "removed", stupid auto-correction.

The problem here is not only maximizing content-quality over minutes-of-video ratio.

The problem is that the storage and its cost always increase over time while the income could be high but doesn't increase accordingly.

Depending on how many followers you have and the optimization you make on duration the moment you will start losing money will be just removed. Maybe two years instead of one year? But that moment will come.

Mathematically, they are two time-dependent curves that will necessarily intersect at a certain point.

As I said in the original thread, the only solution I can think of is making content creators able to download old videos nobody watch, mark them as archived and if some users requests them the authors can decide to reupload them. In addition to this it should be possible for anyone with a seedbox for torrents to make old videos still available even if the server have not the files anymore, but huge work on PeerTube would be needed to allow the latter.

That's great for bandwidth and makes you able to serve a decent stream with a basic server but the problem of storage remains. Other Fediverse services like Mastodon have not this issue because video files use much more storage.

From my experience tell to a video maker they can't use 1080p or 720p but have to stuck to 480p and they will never want to talk about PeerTube anymore.