-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Exactly!! YouTube is by far the best "social" platform (or least shit) and sadly the strongest monopoly. Cus what the fuck is a newly made competitor gonna do? Rip all YouTube videos and host them? People on IG and X etc don't really go around looking at old posts, those places are more for looking at what's new and such. On YouTube however its entirely game that u find a dope edutainment video from years ago that you happen to vibe with.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I think a big part of that is just straight up storage space, more specially a lack thereof. Google won't release specifics but estimates put the total data stored by YouTube at somewhere near an exabyte (1 million terrabytes). Most of which is made up by video files.

Of course that's just issue number 1 of many to figure out.

[–] Wiz@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Storage costs keeps getting cheaper, but high quality video keeps taking up more space.

[–] TurtleSoup@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

It's a matter of finding where the line between cost and user satisfaction meet.

Like sure you could limit all videos to 60fps @ 720p or 30fps @ 1080p but most everyone now wants everything 120fps @ 2160p which takes up dozens of gigs per video and eats up bandwidth.

[–] 9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

People share photos and videos all the time on mastodon. What is the difference with pixelfed?

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Everything on Fedi is just different interfaces and perf from the user perspective.

People want to continue to use something close to Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter but not be locked to their enshitified companies who decide what they get to see.

Many that come over find out there's no algorithm and that they have to follow people to get any content, they find they miss the doom scroll and go straight back.

[–] shortrounddev@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

collapsed inline media

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee -1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Why are you mad, Lemmy.ml and its constant propaganda and misinformation is one of the main reasons Lemmy isn't thriving.

[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

LW dwarfes Lemmy.ml by any possible metric

It's just that IG is much more popular than Reddit, so the Fediverse equivalents have the same ratio

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Try not to project .world on .ml for 5 seconds difficulty level impossible

[–] AugustWest@lemmy.world -1 points 1 month ago

This meme sucks.