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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
