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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

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I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm 90/10 on it being YouTube. I mean, they've already shit the bed plenty in the past. But with all the fediverse stuff picking up steam, Peertube is just sitting there waiting to enter the discourse.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That would be awesome.
But video traffic and storage is so much higher than text and images (like Lemmy or mastadon).
The cost of running it would be pretty huge

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

True. It does look like Peertube has some instances with videos hosted on them. But yeah, storage and bandwidth costs would be much tougher problems to solve than for lemmy as soon as it started to scale up.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Man it would really suck if we ever lost the backlog of YouTube videos