• @just_another_person
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    176 hours ago

    Video will not work for AT whatsoever. Text and images, fine, but I’m pretty sure leveraging edge delivery of video is just not going to work out well for users. I think they’ll need a centralized host for that portion, or some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos.

    • @[email protected]
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      55 hours ago

      So why does it for for AP with Loops? What’s the fundamental difference between, isn’t the Fediverse the more decentralised system?

      • Kairos
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        42 hours ago

        Because Activity Pub is not a data salad. A video lives in a specific place.

      • paraphrand
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        33 hours ago

        I don’t think it has been proven that Loops is viable at scale yet.

        • @[email protected]
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          4 hours ago

          Loops uses ActivityPub and feeds video in a TikTok like manner.

          What’s the difference that makes it not achievable for AT but okay for AP?

          • @just_another_person
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            13 hours ago

            Because one costs money and another doesn’t. Simple fact.

            CDN distribution of content is 2X the cost of static hosted files. This isn’t a pendant saying “I CAN DO THIS” scenario, it’s “can it be monetized”, and in the case of of a video service on AT, absolutely not. Who do you think is paying for the hosting costs of a popular video in this scenario?

            Cuban doesn’t know WTF he’s talking about about at all, but if he wants to launch competition and pay for that, there is certainly an expectation that a return will be built. Ads all over the place.

    • Chozo
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      65 hours ago

      Could implement torrents, which I believe is how Peertube handles it.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 hours ago

      some fancy ways to offload bandwidth otherwise to prevent constant hammering of popular videos

      it’s called a CDN

      • @just_another_person
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        96 hours ago

        CDN won’t scale to millions of users all uploading videos on a decentralized system. Article is specifically talking about AT Protocol which doesn’t account for video. Making a global CDN distribution of videos from decentralized sources is whole other ball of wax.