Hopefully all the drama around this can motivate more creators off ByteDance, Meta, and Alphabet platforms and onto fedi platforms like PeerTube and Loops.
this post was submitted on 09 Jan 2025
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Mbin, Pixelfed, Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. are all enshittification-resistant too
I'm just curious here, what if a large instance (like lemmy.world for example) says that anyone federating with instance X gets defederated? They would miss out on a lot of interactions.
At the end of the day users have to police their instances by leaving if the policies are too draconian for them. Casual users on a big enough instance might not care too much at first, but I think there would be a slow but ever-increasing migration off-instance.
It really depends on how many users disagree with the policy. My last instance defederated Threads and I didn't agree but didn't care enough to leave. It was database issues that lingered for months that made me leave and I don't know my current server's policy on Threads.
Is there a genuine question there? That sounds like a feature rather than a bug. If you don't like it, move to another instance or make your own.
How do those platforms survive though? Any media centric federated platform will require a lot of funding if it's successful. Grants and donations only take them so far. So to avoid serving ads that probably means subscription fees. Is there revenue sharing for creators? Will the platforms be designed for either or does each instance have to roll their own? There's a lot of unanswered questions. All the things that made YouTube dominant required a lot of investment, especially in hardware. No peertube instance will ever be half as efficient as YouTube is behind the scenes. Which means their costs will be way higher.
Bring back Vine!
Unfortunately it would be Elmo’s Vine now.
Guess we need a federated/open source version of what Vine was then.
I think that’s what Loops is, but I haven’t tried it out
It's nice and works very well, but lacks a user base.
Loops doesn't have an app?
It does.
Couldn't find it have a link to it?
I don't remember where I got it but it's definitely on my phone. Try this
It seems to have an iOS app, but it's also evidently still in development.
It's not an alternative.... You literally have to have a Tik Tok account to use Lemon8
what are your thoughts on Koo app? it was found when our government (UP) started mass censorship of twitter in 2019 nov, this lead to people migrating to mastodon and some created koo as alternative of twitter
koo is also popular in brazil and nigeria
also a funny incident i want to share
After crises involving the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk in 2022, Koo became an attractive social network for Brazilian users.[15] According to one of the founders, Aprameya Radhakrishna, until 16 November, only two thousand Brazilian users used Koo, which placed Brazil in position 75 on the list of countries with the most lifetime unique users. On the 18th alone, more than a million Brazilians registered on the social network, which placed Brazil in second place on the list.[16] The app featured at number 1 in the Google's Play Store and Apple's App Store in Brazil. Soon Portuguese support was added in the App.[17] Koo received so many submissions and comments that the site became unstable. Personalities such as Felipe Neto, Casimiro, Bruno Gagliasso and Pocah created their accounts on the social network. The name "Koo", which has the same pronunciation as "cu", a vulgar term for the anus in Portuguese language, drew attention of users.[18] Koo held a poll on Twitter asking Brazilians if the name of the social network should be changed, which was rejected. Koo reached the Top 3 of Twitter's trending topics in Brazil.[19]
the app later shut down in 2024
koo is also popular in brazil
I think that was mostly for the funny name, but I don't think they held monthly active users since the 2022 Twitter drama in Brazil.
Bluesky is a much more realistic twitter alternative there.
But what about Lemon Party
Old internet remembers
*should