I think that pixelfed guy has a big problem with commitment, he has so many unfinished/unpolished projects, and he’d be able to do so much more if he wasn’t starting something new every other month.
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OneRedFox@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
The Pixelfed guy does good work, but video hosting/streaming is the most difficult use-case to compete in due to infrastructure costs; I’m interested to see how he’s planning to handle this and I wish him luck.
krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Comment105@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah okay, so it sounds like he’s the kind of guy who’ll build a framework, or most of it, and won’t ever really become capable of hosting a lot of videos at a watchable quality.
Corgana@startrek.website 4 weeks ago
Not at all, Pixelfed is very polished and gets regular updates.
noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
he mentioned in the past that the videos will be automatically deleted after some period of time.
averyminya@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
How ephemeral.
I can’t wait for it to be used for important long term information.
naeap@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Important long term storage in short video clips?
averyminya@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
It seems to be what’s popular these days
avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I think federated non-profit video platforms won’t work on large scale without P2P.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
I think streaming works best where people self host their own media tbf.
JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Reminds me of the time somebody namedropped a hobbyist’s project on prime time national radio in the UK. Their project was a train timetable tracker website, made because the official resource didn’t work too well. The site went down nearly instantly 🤣
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
this is what peertube tries to fix: everyone watching a peertube video (by default) will help server the data to other watching, so instead of the server needing to send all the data the viewers share the load.
lauha@lemmy.one 4 weeks ago
Snapchat would have been easier in that sense
unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Also there is no casino algorithm showing you what big data knows will make you stay for a while.
lily33@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
That’s actually the whole point of TikTok, what made it different. An app for short videos where you follow people you like is more of a Snapchat competitor, not TikTok.