> "Govnt must stop the erosion of free speech online. That starts with looking again at the wholly inadequate proposals in the Online Safety Bill”
forcing private entities to host things they dont want to sounds like a huge can of worms
Then once they have done that, and these sites have lots of users and traction, mandate that Google, Facebook etc also federate using ActivityPub. If they don't, block their sites.
(which happens to be the real world)
I very much doubt this is the case given the number of tariffs with data caps
As anecdata, I cut my package back to 5GB at the start of the first lockdown as my mobil data usage went to nearly 0 since wifi at home and did not run out of data during the last year. I assume anybody who was able to do that done the same.
If "for most is unlimited" you mean "most don't use up all their data", then yes. If you mean "most have unlimited data plans", then see links above.
EDIT: apologies for the statista link, it wasn't paywalling me when I first looked: it shows about 12% have unlimited data.
There's currently no way to horizontally scale an instance, so after an instance grows past a certain size it can't transcode uploaded videos fast enough. I love the project but if it can't utilize multiple compute instances to transcode video (or plug into a cloud platforms video transcoding offering), it's never going to grow past this blocker.
However I also acknowledge the authors are very open to ideas and they are really awesome. I guess some wizards who knows scaling related things need to be hired and it will costs a lot of money. AFAIK peertube generates money from donation so I don't think we should be harsh on them.
I wasn't aware of that -- fixing it would be a very necessary improvement to the codebase to make the software more useful on big sites.
I've never actually watched a video on a mobile device (I tried once and didn't have enough bandwidth).
If I'm at home or office, I have a desktop PC, and if I'm out and about I have better things to be doing with my time.
The Age Verification industry is lobbying hard to see their "investments" pay off this time, after being disappointed in 2017.
If governments tried to create publicly funded video website for anyone to upload to, it still won't accomplish what we'd hope for because governments always exercise their power censor. (See examples of UK BBC censorship.[1])
Look at the cognitive dissonance in the platitude: "Govnt must stop the erosion of free speech online."
The government-that-censors wants to force private businesses to not-censor?!? Inevitably, the government will force the business to censor something the government doesn't like which creates a contradiction!
[To downvoters: Does a government funded website that has uncensored "free speech" exist now? If not, why would it be realistic that it won't suffer the same pressures to censor that all previous government-controlled communication channels had? Let's not repeat platitudes about "free speech" but really dissect the mechanisms to enable censorship-resistant mass media. The mechanisms of implementation are the more difficult topic!]
EDIT reply to : >"I think op meant, that te government should make video.gov.tld webpage to post government videos there"
But the gp's phrase of "for _anyone_ to upload to" strongly implies user-generated content like Youtube uploaders instead of only the government employees uploading government videos.
Does the UK's BBC count as a government-sponsored website? They already have examples of hosting videos of parliament speeches. E.g. https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-politics-58259509
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_in_the_United_Kingd...
Turn spying on its citizens and data harvesting of their public info into a useful resource for the benefit of all.