Exactly. And that doesn't even take into account higher res photos and 4K video. I remember the staggering statistic where just Instagram sees 100 million photos added per day, every day. And that was years ago.
That is just Instagram, with photos. Imagine Youtube.
And again I have been saying this since ~2015/16, we dont have any meaningful roadmap for cost reduction on storage, whether that is Hot as in NAND, Bulk as in HDD, or Cold as in Optical Disc. I dont see 2TB SSD dropping below $100 in next 5 years, or 10TB HDD below $120.
Remember when Google promise infinite Gmail storage?
> we dont have any meaningful roadmap for cost reduction on storage
Then maybe we could:
- stop encouraging users to post shit just so we can track them
- stop tracking them which requires many data points and a lot of processing power (for 0 benefit for the user or society at large)
- stop the copyright non-sense and actually use hyperlinks instead of reuploading the same content 500 times across platforms? maybe even do content-addressed storage (Bittorrent/IPFS) who knows?
Instagram does not guarantee photo quality. They can resize photos anytime they want. Eventually they turn 10 year old photos that have not been viewed in 9 years into thumbnails or just delete them.
