Well this is Interesting.
Video storage and bandwidth is probably my most pressing concern, but that's the same as with peertube, no?
Speaking of which, are they going to consult with PeerTube for cross compatibility?
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Evidently, [loops and goldfish] are intended to be compatible with one another, as well as other video platforms in the Fediverse, such as PeerTube or Vidzy.
From the article. So yes, they should be cross compatible at some point.
introducing peertube shorts™️
There are a couple of prpeertube creators that make short form content
Okay but storing videos is very expensive. Even in its compressed form. Even images are being disabled in some instances in lemmy because of this. And videos are hundreds of images composed together. Who will run them?
It's less expensive than you would think. Object Storage is actually really, really cheap in a lot of cases. I host a PeerTube instance, and while it does cost me money every month, the cost is decently offset by recurring donations, as well as the savings that Object Storage brings.
This. It's getting it out of storage that's expensive (if you're doing the cloud thing - if doing colo, probably just then down to cost of drives after a short time).
Sorry yes, I forgot donations.
I wonder if some form of bit torrent client may be of use here.
Peertube uses it already, maybe this will too
Oh, I’ll have to check out peertube. Thanks for the information.
I think it's worth considering a model where one might be expected to provide hosting for their own video. Certainly not necessary now but probably will be if/when video on fedi takes off
I guess. An average 30 sec video in Tiktok is around 10mb. So with a S3 storage. For a monthly budget of 10€, you could roughly store 500k of those videos. Taking also account the server bills (10-20€) That would be 30€ per month. For a million of those videos would be 20€ so monthly around 50€ euros. For people that really want to host one. I guess you could. But it's definitely more expensive than something like Lemmy.
You've not factored in egress costs. Which on Amazon can add up quite quickly.
Why do short videos have to loop automatically with no way to turn it off? Who the hell decided that was a good idea and why has every other app followed suit?
I especially hate the ones designed to loop because they think it's "so clever".
"Never play with liquid mercury
It's really bad for your health and shit
That's why you should..."
🤮
It's like the darkest pattern. Making it so that quitting has to be a conscious choice. I see why amoral companies would use it, don't know why FOSS would too.
Because they increase usage of the apps. People just doom scroll and keep playing.
It's a horrible thing IMO
[this is good]
Video does love centralisation, always good to see some pushback.
This might not necessarily be the case for much longer with storage costs finally reaching certain thresholds.
2TB SSDs only cost ~$100 and you can cram a lot of SSDs into a tiny space with only a minimal amount of cooling (still need a fan but just a fan).
The next bottleneck to overcome is upload bandwidth. Too many providers offer asynchronous service with weirdly low/slow upload limitations. However, that too might be changing over the next few years as DOCSIS 4.0 supports 10Gbit down/6Gbit up (DOCSIS 3.1 only supported ~1Gbit up). An important note about DOCSIS 4.0 is that in order to take advantage of it's improved features (on the ISP end) you need to provide more upload bandwidth to the client (well, you can still cap it at the router but at that point the ISP is just being an asshole instead of actually "managing bandwidth").
And don't forget Peertube already uses P2P to spread the load between the server and the viewers.
Regarding Sup: dansup has mentioned that he's put the project on hold until the new EU guidelines around interoperability (targeting whatsapp) are available.
Good to know, I was wondering about that!
Oooh this looks interesting, would love to check it out to see how it goes :0
Omggg!!1!1! This is what I've been waiting for! Yay. I wonder if floptropica will adopt this platform.
Very cool. Might give Pixelfed a try at some point.
What’s the plan for hosting?
Get some Chinese investors and a couple affiliate links…what could go wrong
People keep asking about storage and that's a valid concern. I remember a while ago Linus made a video about a crypto that can be mined with storage. So he made a huge raid of old drives. I wonder if something like this could or would be practical for a decentralized storage solution. Like... Encourage people to set up NAS's that can be used sort of like torrent seeding for a decentralized video platform and reward them with crypto.
I dunno... Just thinking out loud.
Edit: Jeez hit a nerve with the crypto thing, huh? Then what's the solution? Storage costs money. So ads? Subscription cost?
No, crypto is never the solution for anything. Its use cases are limited to drugs and scams, which are sometimes the same things.
Pixelfed is really interesting, and this sounds like a fun project!
The only problem major problem I have encountered with trying to use defederated social medias, outside of Lemmy, like it and mastadon has been the lack of discover ability. I guess I don't know how to properly utilize the platforms, but I never find much that is particular to my interests
What's wrong with finding content using hashtags and keyword searches?
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Short form and vertical format both suck, so meh. I'd rather they did proper video hosting to compete with regular Youtube, though that would cost way more to pull off so I'm not holding my breath.
Ew, no thanks.
GET OFF MY DECENTRALIZED LAWN REEEEE
The more the merrier
Looks like the short form video virus has reached us.
And no one will use it because mobile apps can’t upload.
What? why not?
donno, i spent about 6 months looking for a federated video service i could host. all of them had issues with mobile uploads on iOS and Android.
Dansup has never published an app so i doubt they’re going to solve the problem no one else has.
The Pixelfed app isn't officially published yet, but you can easily grab a beta build: https://pixelfed.org/mobile-apps
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