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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (6 children)

What's the Fediverse YouTube? ooof. that's a tough nut.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Peertube, but it's really not nearly the replacement lemmy or mastodon are.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Yet. It's still very new, and as enshittification increases, so will federated development.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Reddit is mostly text, with a few images for memes, very low in storage, processing power, or bandwidth, its easy to have a fediverse replacement.

Youtube is a video platform. Video take a lot of storage, encoding/decoding, bandwidth...

And video platforms are small amount of content creators, with 99 percent of the users being non-content-creating viewers. Once the content creators are on a monopoly platform (like youtube), there's no incentive for them to leave. And fediverse wouldn't have the same money to make.

In contrast, anyone can find interesting links to post to a Reddit-alternative, anyone can make memes.

TLDR: Reddit is community-focused. Youtube is creator-focused. Difference in hardware requirements. Theres no practical alternative for Youtube, especially not a fediverse one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I love that the replies to you are half saying that it's an impossible problem, and half linking to existing solutions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah you're right, it's kinda great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

peertube