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Given Facebook is like 10% of total Internet bandwidth, I'm curious what happens when all that traffic suddenly gets "redirected" elsewhere by people going to other sites and platforms. Could YouTube cope with a sudden 10% uptick in streams for example?

Edit: YouTube seems now to be defaulting to a lower bitrate, leading me to guess it's a demand issue.



That seems to be the actual case. Most of the "usual web" is struggling. Even HN is struggling for me.




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