video hosting & streaming is still insanely expensive unfortunately. mastodon barely works and it's mostly text with the occasional photo and even rarer video, and still instances shut down because they run out of money. This might be one of those problems that is cracked at some impossible-to-define point in ten years when fiber internet is ubiquitous. Hope they manage it but

Honestly might be an interesting way to do a tiktok-like. Video hosting is super expensive if its centralized; it takes up so much space and has to be super compressed. If instead everyone who creates content also ran their own instance, then federated with a big normie instance, it could conceivably work. The creator would host their content forever, the normie instance could host it for a short timespan to boost visibility, then viewers follow the normie instance and any creators that they want to see more of (and have archives of their own videos)

I wonder if it will have an algorithmic feed as well as a linear feed of your follows. I get the appeal of TikTok is the algorithm, but I only really want that when I'm trying to discover something new. If I'm already following a lot of stuff, sometimes I just want to see it in the order it was posted.

I doubt itll take off ngl

This dev is a hard worker. I don't use Mast a lot but follow him and he's always hustling. I think he might be a lib though but contributing to the federated open source world is aways a good thing imo.

There is also a discord group I'm in that is working on a TT replacement. I sort of hope for the best for both and I'm not a TT user. I just want to see the gov's attempt at reigning in TikTok to use it a their own spyware to straight up fucking crash and burn.

Dansup doesn't really deliver novel tech, but I'm always happy to see the idea getting out there and working out UX ideas at least. Federated video is a tough one. Web p2p tech is extremely limited so don't expect too much. Fedi dev's fixation of web technologies is really holding the platform back imo. Peertube makes bit torrent look bad by not being a complete peer experience, only because browsers can't do real networking. like, I can stream any show I want over bit torrent the day it releases no problem. with over 40 peers for popular content. hosting tiktok-like content could be just as good, but you just can't do this with web.

Sadly, most of the more technical projects have reactionary politics and a blockchain attached.. That's slowly changing, but we have way less funding at our disposal so its rough.

I'm putting my videos on there then.

Interesting