[mandeepj]

For best user experience centralized is the way to go. Imagine a video goes viral hosted on a shared server. Not a good experience for anyone. You could build a cache layer on top of it but then how will you reward the creator?

Are you expecting people setting up, and maintaining their own servers to host videos? Those times are gone. Content creators want to upload where millions of users are already present.

[mIOAMDA]

No the idea is to just make the recommendation platform. There is no hosting going on. If though someone decides to self-host at least they'll be discoverable through the recommendation platform.

[kavi87]

A national public cloud then. Paid by taxpayers for taxpayers. As a nation we are thousand of times wealthier than Youtube.