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Re-rendering 4k videos (or of any other quality fwiw) with ads included would probably incur more electricity costs than they could ever make through the ads. TV could afford to do this since they transmit the same program and the same ads to everyone. Youtube targets them per user, so they’d need to render the same video, in high quality, every time any user clicks on it.
sad to hear that. so is the instance gonna go down? anyone know how we should go about transferring our comments to another instance?