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Re:Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch by paulpan on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @08:48PM (#23765899)
The competitive advantage of YouTube isn't really in video storage or bandwidth, but rather in its creators community and ad revenue sharing/monetization. Also copyright, regulatory compliance, content moderation are non-trivial.

These are the causes (among many others) that sunk Microsoft's Mixer and potentially Facebook Watch...

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Re:Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch by angel_j on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @10:13PM (#23766289)
No, it needed network and storage first, losing billions for years in order to supply the creators with a service. The non-trivial factors could be trivialized by better community moderation features and niche networks.
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Re:Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch by monkeywork on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @11:01PM (#23766511)
youtubes competitive advantage is search... that plus the simple scale of users and content.
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Re:Building Cloudflare TV from Scratch by solarkraft on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:29AM (#23767143)
> youtubes competitive advantage is search

How? YouTube videos aren't all that prominent on Google and its search features are rather terrible.

What they do have is a semi working recommendations system. How hard would that be to replicate?

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