Video hosting itself doesn’t need to be decentralized initially. Amazon is a lot less picky about what you host vs YouTube. I know it’s not ideal but a lesser of 2 evils when it comes to censorship. We use what we can and eventually full blossom. 

 How important is it to host 4k video? I'd be fine with a degoogled video service at 480p for 90% of the content out there. So many youtube videos are just somebody talking at a desk and they're playing at higher resolution than my monitor can even display. 

 Yeah a lot of people are posting videos that could just be audio. Much much cheaper 

 Google also began throttling video quality many years ago. Especially on phones. But recently on the web. 

They can’t afford the bandwidth either. 

Now you need to go and click “4K” to get the high quality. 

90% of people don’t even care. 

 360P 4 LYFE 

 Probably not that critical. I think 1080p would do fine. Some people will prefer 4K but Amazon hosting should be fairly cheap 

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 Is it possible for individuals to host their own videos for streaming?