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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
There are already pixelfed and peertube as fediverse alternatives to instagram and youtube if you want to check them out.
There is already a YouTube version. Odyssee. There’s a federated instant messaging protocol called XMPP that looks pretty good too.
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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.
