Dansup doesn’t really deliver novel tech, but I’m always happy to see the idea getting out there and working out UX ideas at least. Federated video is a tough one. Web p2p tech is extremely limited so don’t expect too much. Fedi dev’s fixation of web technologies is really holding the platform back imo. Peertube makes bit torrent look bad by not being a complete peer experience, only because browsers can’t do real networking. like, I can stream any show I want over bit torrent the day it releases no problem. with over 40 peers for popular content. hosting tiktok-like content could be just as good, but you just can’t do this with web.
Sadly, most of the more technical projects have reactionary politics and a blockchain attached… That’s slowly changing, but we have way less funding at our disposal so its rough.
Yeah, people who live the majority of their lives offline and mostly use the net for distractions or a means to an end have no ideology on the matter. They go to where the most people are or at least the ones that align with their target audience.
This is very common with people who make stuff to sell and use Instagram/tiktok/etc as their sole marketing platform. Moving their activity to a less active platform (or just adding it to your social account list) can effectively cost them more in time or money that makes it not worth the hassle for them.
And a lot of normal users stick around on these sites because its the only place their favorite artists/vendors/people are. Its a conundrum.
Honestly might be an interesting way to do a tiktok-like. Video hosting is super expensive if its centralized; it takes up so much space and has to be super compressed. If instead everyone who creates content also ran their own instance, then federated with a big normie instance, it could conceivably work. The creator would host their content forever, the normie instance could host it for a short timespan to boost visibility, then viewers follow the normie instance and any creators that they want to see more of (and have archives of their own videos)
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