A Fediverse Alternative to TikTok (lemmy.cif.su)

submitted 3 months ago by anthony@lemmy.cif.su to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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In the last few months i really gotten into the whole Fediverse thing, but i noticed that, despite it being the most popular Social Media Platform, there isn't a TikTok alternative. I know there is Loops, but it's not open source or federated yet, so it's not really an option. Why is that?

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[-] queermunist@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 months ago

Video content is really computationally expensive to play and store. Seems like it requires centralization to make the service fast and responsive with enough storage.

I suppose I could imagine some kind of ephemeral TikTok that deletes videos from storage after a set amount of time. Or a lowfi TikTok that only allows uploads in 240p. Otherwise I just can't see it.