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by memecatcher 1545 days ago
Definitely would help a lot. Although I'm not sure we can expect everyone to develop the simplest next step of literacy that creators might need here- having that site also be able to have user accounts, charge users, restrict access appropriately. Since these things are pretty universal, I do also think the no-code space is attempting to meet people halfway there -- letting people do stuff on their own with basic literacy without having to reinvent the wheel each time requiring some deeper (even if still basic) knowledge. Of course some centralized solutions do have predatory pricing to take advantage of the fact that many people need that abstraction layer, but I suspect the problem is also two fold - running the quick math on some of the example creators about to be kicked off of Vimeo, I suspect many of them would find the costs of running this service (especially if they wanted "good" streaming) themselves to be expensive also, not counting the additional time that would be required of them even if they could do it.