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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] 23 points 2 years ago (9 children)

What about YouTube?

I looked online and there seems to be PeerTube at least.

[–] PolDelta 35 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I would love for something to replace YouTube, especially something in the Fediverse, but video unfortunately has much higher storage and bandwidth requirements, so it's hard to imagine that not being totally cost prohibitive at high levels of traffic, even if it's split across so many different servers. I'd love to be wrong on that, though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The other problem with YouTube/twitch alts as opposed to reddit/twitter is that a lot of the creators people like the most actually rely on those platforms to serve ads in order to make a living. That content can't exist on FOSS systems unless they somehow manage to attract advertisers, which seems next to impossible

[–] PolDelta 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, that's definitely a good point. Even the creators that do get sponsorships also get money from the ads.

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