Thank you spez for freeing me of my reddit habit. Shoutout /r/neography for being the chillest hobby subreddit. I will miss looking at other people's weird ways of writing but it's for the best.
Do you have anything you'll miss from reddit?
Thank you spez for freeing me of my reddit habit. Shoutout /r/neography for being the chillest hobby subreddit. I will miss looking at other people's weird ways of writing but it's for the best.
Do you have anything you'll miss from reddit?
I've totally cut out my reddit usage down to zero thanks to hexbear. Hoping for alternatives to twitter and youtube soon to take over.
It's amazing to me that YouTube has survived the past 20 years at all, tbh. Guess a functional monopoly will do that
Google is the only company that can afford the endless money pit of a server based, user generated content video hosting service, and no one has figured out how to do it cheaper. People are trying to reinvent peer to peer networking to get there (see peertube), but haven't quite figured it out yet.
I've been having a good time on Masto. I can't follow any of the podcast people on there (except Paris Marx and Molly White), but I already spend a lot more time there than Twitter. I might be biased though.
Youtube / Twitch will be a much tougher nut to crack. We have the software (Peertube), but the infrastructural requirements for video platforms is immensely higher than message boards and microblogs. It costs me more to fill my gas tank than it does to run a Mastodon instance for one month. On the other hand, an active video platform would absolutely require user donations unless you are a Hacker News American Psycho.
The future of video platforms would be basically reinventing peer to peer networking, but with some kind of CDNs, seedboxes or servers involved as well to ensure that not all the load is purely on the peers. And without the security risks of directly connecting to peers. I now that peertube is trying something like that, and stremio does it with torrents, so you can stream torrents. And there's acestream for peer to peer livestreams.
I think the big players like Google will catch on to this as well. Microsoft basically uses their own version of peer to peer networking that's quite honestly similar to torrenting to distribute windows updates (lol), no way is Google just going to let YouTube lose money. Either FOSS (free open source software) or the big corporations will figure it out first. I hope its FOSS.