Mostly the title, but it would be nice to have more options now that Reddit and Twitter have alternatives. I would love to see a YouTube and ticktock version. Maybe even an instagram as well.
There are already pixelfed and peertube as fediverse alternatives to instagram and youtube if you want to check them out.
YouTube
I am intrigued by this but I wonder how it will work. Just the hosting cost of YouTube is orders off magnitude higher than Reddit/Twitter alternatives.
It’d be cool, but I think any youtube clone that doesn’t have a large dedicated takedown staff is going to have a hard time sticking around. That and the fact that the servers would overheat due to lack of airflow as the building they’re housed in is buried under a mountain of printed out and snail mailed DMCA violation notices make things problematic.
Then there’s the order of magnitude increase in resources required to serve up the content.
Add to that the fact that the reason most content creators are on youtube is for the monetization portion of their platform and it’s a tall order to replicate something on that level.
That being said, an alternative of some kind for non-copyrighted content would be awesome.
The “hard part” of being YouTube isn’t storage or bandwidth or recommendations or even takedowns. The really hard part is making business deals with a vast number of advertisers, providing the revenue stream. Video creators who want to be paid will prefer a service that can offer a revenue stream over one that can’t yet.
I’m of the opinion that a YouTube alternative is genuinely impossible without it being a subscription service. There’s not enough money in the amount of advertising people will tolerate in order to successfully run a video streaming site at scale.
All super good points. YouTube probably is a very tall order and we will have to continue growing not just the the fediverse but as a society to really get there. But an instagram clone might be nice.
Peertube?
Odysee if you’re ok with it not being federated(syncs all content fron your account too)
Theres diaspora that aimed at being an alternative to facebook but I dont recall it gained that much interest - not comparable to mastodon or lemmy that is. But then diaspora launched some 13 years ago when fb was dominating social media
Pixelfed is the repalcement for the Instagram.
Peertube is suppose to be a repalcement for YouTube, but with video the storage price being very high it’s close to imposible to compete with companies that can burn the infinite money. It’s mainly used for various niches now like privacy, Linux, education, etc.
Never used TikTok, so not sure what’s special about it, but I don’t think there is anything in the works with ActivityPub support.
There is already a YouTube version. Odyssee. There’s a federated instant messaging protocol called XMPP that looks pretty good too.
I think so, though things should be interesting for awhile with some media outlets being not well received on the Fediverse (case in point, Fakebook.)
Very true. We will have to see how Lemmy does as well. I feel like it’s growing daily but anything can happen right now. It’s a bit of the Wild West still.
In the Fediverse, there’s PeerTube as an alternative to YouTube and Pixelfed as an alternative to Instagram. Plus many many more services
I don’t think there’s a platform for shortform vertical video content yet
For Youtube there is peertube, pixelfed for instagram, and goldfish.social for tiktok.
TickTock
No thanks
