Edit: To clarify:
Is it even possible, financially speaking, to keep adding storage? I mean, advertisements don’t even make a lot of money, is the indefinite growth of server storage even sustainable?
Or will they do what Twitch does with old content and just delete them?
But first, will YouTube run out of video IDs? Tom Scott answers: https://youtube.com/watch?v=gocwRvLhDf8
Just based on the url you shared. 11 characters needed. 26 lowercase letters + 26 uppercase letters + 10 numbers = 62 possible characters choices. 6211=5.2x1019 possible ids
Edit: oooh I was close
Its base 64. 26 uppercase + 26 lowercase + 10 digits + - and _. And there’s 11 places, so in total it’s 6411.
Your superscripts are messed up. Lemmy uses the syntax
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