Sebastian Lauwers
2026-04-06T07:36:39Z

@Gargron YouTube didn’t evolve from Twitter. YouTube started as a video content platform.

Hosting video is a completely different ball game to hosting… text. A toot is going to be a kilobyte or two. A few megabytes if you add images (images are the most expensive part of hosting a Mastodon instance).

A video is hundreds of megabytes, potentially even gigabytes, as I’m sure you’re very well aware while uploading to YT.