The Fediverse might be getting their own mashups of Tiktok, YouTube, and Vine sooner than anyone thought, thanks to the work of one prolific dev spearheading an effort. The best part? He’s helping other projects in the space, too.
Okay but storing videos is very expensive. Even in its compressed form. Even images are being disabled in some instances in lemmy because of this. And videos are hundreds of images composed together. Who will run them?
It’s less expensive than you would think. Object Storage is actually really, really cheap in a lot of cases. I host a PeerTube instance, and while it does cost me money every month, the cost is decently offset by recurring donations, as well as the savings that Object Storage brings.
Sorry yes, I forgot donations.
I wonder if some form of bit torrent client may be of use here.
Peertube uses it already, maybe this will too
Oh, I’ll have to check out peertube. Thanks for the information.
Why do short videos have to loop automatically with no way to turn it off? Who the hell decided that was a good idea and why has every other app followed suit?
I especially hate the ones designed to loop because they think it’s “so clever”.
“Never play with liquid mercury
It’s really bad for your health and shit
That’s why you should…”🤮
[this is good]
Video does love centralisation, always good to see some pushback.
Omggg!!1!1! This is what I’ve been waiting for! Yay. I wonder if floptropica will adopt this platform.
What’s the plan for hosting?
Get some Chinese investors and a couple affiliate links…what could go wrong
The more the merrier
Looks like the short form video virus has reached us.
Honestly the occasional reposted tik tok is something I really miss from reddit, in the right community scrolling through the top of the week was an absolute blast!
I’m really glad to see some short form video fedi service joining the fediverse, hopefully it pans out well and gets enough users to have consistent content!
People keep asking about storage and that’s a valid concern. I remember a while ago Linus made a video about a crypto that can be mined with storage. So he made a huge raid of old drives. I wonder if something like this could or would be practical for a decentralized storage solution. Like… Encourage people to set up NAS’s that can be used sort of like torrent seeding for a decentralized video platform and reward them with crypto.
I dunno… Just thinking out loud.
Edit: Jeez hit a nerve with the crypto thing, huh? Then what’s the solution? Storage costs money. So ads? Subscription cost?
No, crypto is never the solution for anything. Its use cases are limited to drugs and scams, which are sometimes the same things.
Short form and vertical format both suck, so meh. I’d rather they did proper video hosting to compete with regular Youtube, though that would cost way more to pull off so I’m not holding my breath.
You mean PeerTube?
I would so much like to love peertube, but I have yet to find any instance that hosts the trash reevant to my interests. Mostly they either are filled with reuploads from YouTube, or are full of radicalized conspiracy theories (which I encounter very rarely on any other form of fediverse).
And then there is the “dumploads”, which makes the instances seem like they only have one active contributor, as they dump like 60 videos right after another, resulting the frontpages to have just one note content. This, however, could be gixed by otion to group conecutive uploads as “[latest video] and [n] other videos from [user]”, which would help to find more diverse content, as well as discourage dumping.
Then again, that is only my opinion, and if PeerTube is fine for others, who am I to complain. It just doesn’t seem to be for me :/
There are a handful of decent instances, but you really have to dig to find stuff, sadly. I run Spectra Video and basically have to curate sign-ups and which servers we follow.
It helps cut down on a lot of the crap, but it takes work.
With the cost of hosting videos and almost all instances not accepting registration. Peertube has zero chance to replace youtube. The best it could be is complementary to youtube
Peertube actually uses some pretty nifty p2p tech (not quite BitTorrent iirc but same principle) to mitigate load from popularity spikes.
What about how hard it is to have an account on any instance. Pwople can’t even comment on video without an account
“Pixelfed”, “sup.”, “Loops” honestly Pixelfed is like the only fediverse brand with moderately modern naming schemes, like I could imagine Loops and sup gaining actually traction outside of Linux folks, would honestly be a huge win for fedi
Ew, no thanks.
GET OFF MY DECENTRALIZED LAWN REEEEE
And no one will use it because mobile apps can’t upload.
