I don’t care for short form videos, but this is still really cool. Hopefully it provides an embed URL for the videos so the ones that get posted to Lemmy can be embedded (which is how Peertube links work).
Apytele@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 04:36
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Right like this is a mixed bag. I feel like my YouTube shorts addiction is fucking my attention span and I need to get back to watching long form stuff but like also a) fedi isn’t going to have server space for much else and b) it’ll bring the user base fedi will need to grow and maybe have the server space someday.
My other thought is that maybe things like peertube need more communities around streaming where the video isn’t saved, at least by default. This could also be a better direction for the internet as a whole; moving away from this idea that every single moment of everything must be recorded for posterity. The internet really does need more liminal spaces. I really liked the aether model but that guy abandoned the project and lemmy is here now anyway. It would be cool maybe to have a lemmy instance where everything is auto-deleted after 6 months and at least puts out requests to also delete on other servers.
MrRawRats@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 08:46
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I strongly disagree on that point. Preservation of the internet is extremely important for cultural and historical reasons. Just look at the enormous amount of old websites stored on the internet archive and how helpful as well as culturally significant that preservation effort is. And that is only a drop in the ocean compared to how big the internet actually is.
Yes preserving stuff, especially video, takes enormous amounts of data and is hard but is well worth the effort in the end.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev
on 29 Apr 2024 13:04
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but is well worth the effort in the end.
That’s easily said when you don’t have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill.
Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that’s often overlooked).
I’m currently sitting on 4TB of data (that’s largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud.
My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that’s less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old “server” idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar.
I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I’m working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient.
Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10
AlolanYoda@mander.xyz
on 29 Apr 2024 12:50
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Man, same on the point about YouTube shorts ruining my attention span. The only thing keeping me from an addiction, I feel, is a feeling of guilt when watching shorts instead of long form content.
Whenever I do watch long form content it ends up being more fulfilling and entertaining, too, so I have no idea why our brains are so biased towards short form content.
this tbh! reddit, tiktok, etc. doesn’t properly embed in discord anymore, so I could just upload funny clips to Loops and have an actual playable embed when I share the link.
SandbagTiara2816@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 29 Apr 2024 02:03
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Neat! I’ll probably try it out. Like it or not, short form video is really popular now, so this feels like a good thing to grow Pixelfed and the fediverse
QuantumEyetanglement@lemdro.id
on 29 Apr 2024 03:49
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As someone who cannot stand stories, TikTok, and basically short form video as a whole, I may check this out for the fediverse!!
I occasionally get pulled into the YouTube shorts and hate howuch time I lose to them. Worse was that although I barely use Instagram beyond keeping in contact with friends who only use it, I happened to watch the reels for a little yesterday and they were really entertaining.
A lot of amateur video creators don’t have the experience to keep their work engaging for long periods of time, half the internet feels like SNL sketches that make their best punchline in the first 20 seconds and then milk the same joke for the next 3 minutes. The way short form content cuts through the crap is actually quite nice. It obviously has a whole bunch of its own issues but that’s mostly due to chasing the algorithms favour, not the short form nature of the content.
There is peertube for years. A simple plugin for shorts would be enough. But hey, I don’t judge the way it goes. Good luck for loops. I hope dansup has some time for his other projects, like sup. Never heard about sup again, is it dead?
themadcodger@kbin.social
on 29 Apr 2024 04:32
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I vaguely remember it being put on hold for some alignment with European privacy laws or something along those lines.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org
on 29 Apr 2024 03:54
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Sean is really going the wrong way integrating that with pixelfed as the reels counterpart would have been better as the pixelfed servers aldready support big enough file size for a 30s or a minute videos . Like lemmy definetly has got a chance coming out on top against reddit but pixelfed will never overtake or be on par with insta if it goes this way people need groups and calling features etc. because insta is mainly about being a social platform rather than sharing pics my guess would be even tho pixelfed aspires to be insta which is pretty clear it does based on its ui ( don’t argue its supposed to be a place for nerds to post pics because atleast the dev doesn’t see it that way and is often advertised as a fediverse instagram alt ) but it’ll stay as only a place for nerds to post their pics and eventually be unactive and die out .
The devs on fediverse seem unable to grasp the concept that it is not big enough for a thousand projects to spring up suddenly and will do more harm stretching the aldready thin userbase than good . Maybe try making the aldready good softwares than reinventing the wheel ? Its not like we can’t fork it in the future no need to have a couple of alternatives built for just incase scenario or anything . But still i hope it works out well enough for the devs and gets some of Americans as tiktok is banned there no i think and maybe there is a market for alternative .
FelipeFelop@discuss.online
on 29 Apr 2024 06:29
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I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted. You are completely correct. There is a trail of partially finished projects. Pixelfed itself is in beta after years and years (and competitors seizing the opportunity with more polished products) , there’s SUP, Loops and that fedi directory to name three more.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org
on 29 Apr 2024 07:59
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Sure try pixeldroid from fdroid . Not really a recommendation as in i like it but a recommendation as this is an alternative UI you may or may not like .
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev
on 29 Apr 2024 13:09
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It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this:
.....,,,,,,
gunpachi@lemmings.world
on 29 Apr 2024 13:10
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I agree. Having loops within pixelfed makes more sense.
nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br
on 29 Apr 2024 04:15
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This is very interesting, but makes me wonder if nonprofit initiatives will be able to host video sharing platforms in the fediverse, because of the server damends of it.
neshura@bookwormstory.social
on 29 Apr 2024 10:30
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It certainly is possible but the more fancy stuff would need to be locked behind some paywall. Hosting 720p30 content is very doable but if users have the option they will of course upload everything and their mother in 4k60 at which point gl with the storage costs alone, nvm the need for hardware acceleration.
franklin@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 11:22
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This is only semi-related but do you think it’s possible to use a neural network to optimize compression?
Edit: wait I just realized I’m stupid this is 4/5 of Nvidia’s AI ventures.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca
on 29 Apr 2024 11:51
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everything and their mother in 4k60
Here before someone makes a “yo mama” joke
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 13:35
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yo mama’s bitrate is so large that nobody’s video decoder is up to the task
ScreaminOctopus@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 12:38
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It’ll definitely need some kind of quality enforcement to make hosting work. It’d be really useful if the app would automatically transcode to the server’s preferred quality when uploading, using the uploaders device. If the server has to transcode all the video the compute costs could get astronomical.
graymess@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 2024 22:07
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There should be no reason not to transcode onboard, right? Modern mobile devices could probably process video no problem and then the upload would be smaller and quicker than sending the original. Only issue might be long videos, but I think there’s a case to be made that these types of platforms should have a firm duration cap of only a few minutes tops.
Seems this would be a great way to drive financial support.
I’ve reprocessed my own video down to 480, and am surprised at how much stuff is perfectly viewable at that resolution, even on larger devices.
It’s too easy to save stuff at a higher than needed resolution.
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
on 29 Apr 2024 11:58
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Makes me wonder if we could get an open source Google-style ad platform that only works in the fediverse and directly funds whoever’s server is being used.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 13:32
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Oh man I can’t wait for the rational, level-headed discussions that would come out of this.
But yeah I do think a project like this will be inevitable, it just remains to be seen how palatable people will find it
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 13:57
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Nah, I’d much rather go down the micro transaction route. You get to watch some portion of the video (say, 30s), then you need to pay a few cents to continue.
We’d need a centralized payment service to keep costs down, but the rest can be decentralized. I’m thinking we’d use something like GNU Taler, so you’d load up your account, use Taler to pay creators, and then creators could cash in every to often.
archchan@lemmy.ml
on 29 Apr 2024 07:22
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It will also come with an open source “For You” algorithm. I’ve been wishing the fediverse do this since I joined and it took literally banning TikTok for it to happen in the span of a few months by dansup for Loops, who thankfully has a favorable outlook on the use of algorithms on the fediverse.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 10:22
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It’s easy to forget that algorithms were originally added to social media as a benefit to the user. It’s easy to miss the content you want to see when you follow lots of accounts.
I would love to see an algorithm that allows for manual adjustment. Kagi search allows a user to raise or lower the priority of individual results. I can’t think of another platform or service that does this explicitly. Most do it implicitly through various forms of engagement.
JeffreyOrange@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 08:30
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Great name
priapus@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 13:52
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Dansup is seriously great at designing social platforms. I don’t have much personal use for it, as I never cared for instagram, but I think Pixelfed is the best designed platform on the Fediverse. I’m sure Loops will be great too. Fantastic name too.
Legend@lemmy.sdf.org
on 29 Apr 2024 15:23
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I think lemmy is the best one on the fediverse as i have tried most of em and only lemmy feels really polished, usable, better than all alternatives etc but yeah its personnel preferance i guess .
priapus@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 17:27
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I like lemmy’s design, but I thought it’s user onboarding process was pretty bad when I joined. It’s much better since the join-lemmy.org redesign.
I use the Sync app to enjoy Lemmy, and I miss a design revamp on the official Lemmy front-end UI for Web when I’m using a desktop.
piyuv@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 15:45
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Kudos to the guy for doing stuff + it being FOSS, but I wouldn’t call him “great at designing social platforms”. Pixelfed is fediverse instagram, loops is fediverse tiktok
Hadriscus@lemm.ee
on 29 Apr 2024 16:48
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Yea part of the point in designing these alternatives (to my understanding) is that the userbase can feel immediately at home, there is little barrier to entry
priapus@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Apr 2024 17:25
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Pretty much everything on the fediverse is just a clone of another social media. Pixelfed still has the most intuitive design for new users and a great onboarding process. Took Mastodon a while to catch up.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 20:31
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Just wait 'til you find out that Lemmy is also a fediverse clone of a toxic platform
TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 15:39
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I was wondering when someone was going to create a Fediverse platform like this. Figured it would be the folks at either PixelFed or Peertube. Can’t wait to try it out!
pineapplelover@lemm.ee
on 29 Apr 2024 17:00
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Fucking hate short videos but if this gets normies on the federated side then I’m all for it
Yes, everyone deserves a bullshit free social experience. You’re more than welcome to go start your own instance that only federates with other hardcore nerd instances
PlasticHam@reddthat.com
on 29 Apr 2024 20:17
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Been following this for a while and can’t wait to see what it brings to the table. :-)
PlasticParagraph@mastodon.social
on 29 Apr 2024 20:18
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PlasticHam@reddthat.com
on 29 Apr 2024 20:18
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Thanks! :-)
PlasticHam@reddthat.com
on 29 Apr 2024 21:16
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yaayyyyy! :-)
Furbag@lemmy.world
on 29 Apr 2024 21:18
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This is well timed considering the TikTok ban timeline. Loops will have enough time to sort out any bugs or issues right now with a slow trickle of traffic and then probably grow exponentially in the power vacuum left behind when TikTok vanishes from the various app stores.
ObsidianZed@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Apr 2024 04:27
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I was aware of it, but is it part of the fediverse? If so, I was unaware. I thought it was around before.
jayandp@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Apr 2024 05:12
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As far as I can tell, it’s always used ActivityPub for instances to communicate with each other, with video streaming mainly facilitated using WebTorrent on the backend to keep use of the host low.
Great platform name. Though I like the idea, but it’s currently only one developer. It’s the same dev behind Pixelfed. He’s a good dev, but I feel like he’s stretching himself too thin to make both platforms the amount of development they need to pick up steam.
ahriboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
on 30 Apr 2024 04:47
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I’m waiting for algorithm. And start promoting it in the United States in the event of TikTok not going to sell.
Between Pixelfed, Sup, Loops, FediDB, fediverse.info, PubKit, all that comes with developing those, his main job, and whatever else he has cooking, I don’t like being so heavily dependent on the whims of one dev. I have mad respect for him and everything he has done, but this situation is definitely limiting the growth of the platforms, contributions to those platforms, and his general decision making on what to develop and how to prioritize.
I try to be optimistic because in the end what he’s doing is a net positive, but we’re going to need more than one man’s raw coding talent. That’s why although I’m exited for Loops, I’m tempering my expectations and expecting a cap on the popularity and adoption of Loops like with Pixelfed unless something changes.
caseyweederman@lemmy.ca
on 30 Apr 2024 20:58
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I mean, it’s open source, right? Be the change etc.
crispyflagstones@sh.itjust.works
on 30 Apr 2024 21:31
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Bet a killer feature for this would be pluggable recommendation algorithms.
EDIT; Clarity
recapitated@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 2024 22:09
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Cool, a whole new way to learn about what every type of penis looks like
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
on 30 Apr 2024 22:19
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Love the fediverse.
spaduf@slrpnk.net
on 01 May 2024 20:39
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If anybody’s interested in signing up for the rolling beta, here’s the link
cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de
on 02 May 2024 03:17
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Good.
I don’t care for short form videos, but this is still really cool. Hopefully it provides an embed URL for the videos so the ones that get posted to Lemmy can be embedded (which is how Peertube links work).
Right like this is a mixed bag. I feel like my YouTube shorts addiction is fucking my attention span and I need to get back to watching long form stuff but like also a) fedi isn’t going to have server space for much else and b) it’ll bring the user base fedi will need to grow and maybe have the server space someday.
My other thought is that maybe things like peertube need more communities around streaming where the video isn’t saved, at least by default. This could also be a better direction for the internet as a whole; moving away from this idea that every single moment of everything must be recorded for posterity. The internet really does need more liminal spaces. I really liked the aether model but that guy abandoned the project and lemmy is here now anyway. It would be cool maybe to have a lemmy instance where everything is auto-deleted after 6 months and at least puts out requests to also delete on other servers.
I strongly disagree on that point. Preservation of the internet is extremely important for cultural and historical reasons. Just look at the enormous amount of old websites stored on the internet archive and how helpful as well as culturally significant that preservation effort is. And that is only a drop in the ocean compared to how big the internet actually is.
Yes preserving stuff, especially video, takes enormous amounts of data and is hard but is well worth the effort in the end.
That’s easily said when you don’t have to supply the effort or pay the hosting bill.
Seems like this was acknowledged, but a good point nonetheless (that’s often overlooked).
I’m currently sitting on 4TB of data (that’s largely movies and TV shows), running on 4-year-old hardware, with 3 local replicants, backed up to cloud.
My power and cloud costs are trivial - about 25 cents a day - that’s less than $100/year (after hardware costs, which come out to about $150/year to continue with similar performance levels). My 4 year old “server” idles at about 20 watts. I can probably bring this down to perhaps 10w with a newer NUC or similar.
I could easily store everything my extended family produces (including cousins, about 50 people) with a similar setup. In fact, I’m working on just such a project - an SFF or NUC type device with sufficient.
Edit: autocorrect changed $100 to $10
Man, same on the point about YouTube shorts ruining my attention span. The only thing keeping me from an addiction, I feel, is a feeling of guilt when watching shorts instead of long form content.
Whenever I do watch long form content it ends up being more fulfilling and entertaining, too, so I have no idea why our brains are so biased towards short form content.
this tbh! reddit, tiktok, etc. doesn’t properly embed in discord anymore, so I could just upload funny clips to Loops and have an actual playable embed when I share the link.
Neat! I’ll probably try it out. Like it or not, short form video is really popular now, so this feels like a good thing to grow Pixelfed and the fediverse
As someone who cannot stand stories, TikTok, and basically short form video as a whole, I may check this out for the fediverse!!
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I occasionally get pulled into the YouTube shorts and hate howuch time I lose to them. Worse was that although I barely use Instagram beyond keeping in contact with friends who only use it, I happened to watch the reels for a little yesterday and they were really entertaining.
A lot of amateur video creators don’t have the experience to keep their work engaging for long periods of time, half the internet feels like SNL sketches that make their best punchline in the first 20 seconds and then milk the same joke for the next 3 minutes. The way short form content cuts through the crap is actually quite nice. It obviously has a whole bunch of its own issues but that’s mostly due to chasing the algorithms favour, not the short form nature of the content.
For sure, it will be interesting to see how it grows organically as of most things in the fediverse.
I hope there will be a filter to filter by content format
That sounds cool. We’ve been needing some sort of federated video sharing platform.
There is peertube for years. A simple plugin for shorts would be enough. But hey, I don’t judge the way it goes. Good luck for loops. I hope dansup has some time for his other projects, like sup. Never heard about sup again, is it dead?
I vaguely remember it being put on hold for some alignment with European privacy laws or something along those lines.
Sean is really going the wrong way integrating that with pixelfed as the reels counterpart would have been better as the pixelfed servers aldready support big enough file size for a 30s or a minute videos . Like lemmy definetly has got a chance coming out on top against reddit but pixelfed will never overtake or be on par with insta if it goes this way people need groups and calling features etc. because insta is mainly about being a social platform rather than sharing pics my guess would be even tho pixelfed aspires to be insta which is pretty clear it does based on its ui ( don’t argue its supposed to be a place for nerds to post pics because atleast the dev doesn’t see it that way and is often advertised as a fediverse instagram alt ) but it’ll stay as only a place for nerds to post their pics and eventually be unactive and die out .
The devs on fediverse seem unable to grasp the concept that it is not big enough for a thousand projects to spring up suddenly and will do more harm stretching the aldready thin userbase than good . Maybe try making the aldready good softwares than reinventing the wheel ? Its not like we can’t fork it in the future no need to have a couple of alternatives built for just incase scenario or anything . But still i hope it works out well enough for the devs and gets some of Americans as tiktok is banned there no i think and maybe there is a market for alternative .
I’m not sure why you’ve been downvoted. You are completely correct. There is a trail of partially finished projects. Pixelfed itself is in beta after years and years (and competitors seizing the opportunity with more polished products) , there’s SUP, Loops and that fedi directory to name three more.
What competitors to pixelfed are there?
So this is why the Pixelfed UI is pretty bad?
Try different clients if you think the default one is bad .
Got any recommendations?
Sure try pixeldroid from fdroid . Not really a recommendation as in i like it but a recommendation as this is an alternative UI you may or may not like .
It’s dangerous to go alone! Take this:
.....,,,,,,I agree. Having loops within pixelfed makes more sense.
This is very interesting, but makes me wonder if nonprofit initiatives will be able to host video sharing platforms in the fediverse, because of the server damends of it.
It certainly is possible but the more fancy stuff would need to be locked behind some paywall. Hosting 720p30 content is very doable but if users have the option they will of course upload everything and their mother in 4k60 at which point gl with the storage costs alone, nvm the need for hardware acceleration.
This is only semi-related but do you think it’s possible to use a neural network to optimize compression?
Edit: wait I just realized I’m stupid this is 4/5 of Nvidia’s AI ventures.
Here before someone makes a “yo mama” joke
yo mama’s bitrate is so large that nobody’s video decoder is up to the task
It’ll definitely need some kind of quality enforcement to make hosting work. It’d be really useful if the app would automatically transcode to the server’s preferred quality when uploading, using the uploaders device. If the server has to transcode all the video the compute costs could get astronomical.
There should be no reason not to transcode onboard, right? Modern mobile devices could probably process video no problem and then the upload would be smaller and quicker than sending the original. Only issue might be long videos, but I think there’s a case to be made that these types of platforms should have a firm duration cap of only a few minutes tops.
Seems this would be a great way to drive financial support.
I’ve reprocessed my own video down to 480, and am surprised at how much stuff is perfectly viewable at that resolution, even on larger devices.
It’s too easy to save stuff at a higher than needed resolution.
Makes me wonder if we could get an open source Google-style ad platform that only works in the fediverse and directly funds whoever’s server is being used.
Oh man I can’t wait for the rational, level-headed discussions that would come out of this.
But yeah I do think a project like this will be inevitable, it just remains to be seen how palatable people will find it
Nah, I’d much rather go down the micro transaction route. You get to watch some portion of the video (say, 30s), then you need to pay a few cents to continue.
We’d need a centralized payment service to keep costs down, but the rest can be decentralized. I’m thinking we’d use something like GNU Taler, so you’d load up your account, use Taler to pay creators, and then creators could cash in every to often.
It will also come with an open source “For You” algorithm. I’ve been wishing the fediverse do this since I joined and it took literally banning TikTok for it to happen in the span of a few months by dansup for Loops, who thankfully has a favorable outlook on the use of algorithms on the fediverse.
It’s easy to forget that algorithms were originally added to social media as a benefit to the user. It’s easy to miss the content you want to see when you follow lots of accounts.
I would love to see an algorithm that allows for manual adjustment. Kagi search allows a user to raise or lower the priority of individual results. I can’t think of another platform or service that does this explicitly. Most do it implicitly through various forms of engagement.
Great name
Dansup is seriously great at designing social platforms. I don’t have much personal use for it, as I never cared for instagram, but I think Pixelfed is the best designed platform on the Fediverse. I’m sure Loops will be great too. Fantastic name too.
I think lemmy is the best one on the fediverse as i have tried most of em and only lemmy feels really polished, usable, better than all alternatives etc but yeah its personnel preferance i guess .
I like lemmy’s design, but I thought it’s user onboarding process was pretty bad when I joined. It’s much better since the join-lemmy.org redesign.
I use the Sync app to enjoy Lemmy, and I miss a design revamp on the official Lemmy front-end UI for Web when I’m using a desktop.
Kudos to the guy for doing stuff + it being FOSS, but I wouldn’t call him “great at designing social platforms”. Pixelfed is fediverse instagram, loops is fediverse tiktok
Yea part of the point in designing these alternatives (to my understanding) is that the userbase can feel immediately at home, there is little barrier to entry
Pretty much everything on the fediverse is just a clone of another social media. Pixelfed still has the most intuitive design for new users and a great onboarding process. Took Mastodon a while to catch up.
Just wait 'til you find out that Lemmy is also a fediverse clone of a toxic platform
Yeah, the name is really good.
I was wondering when someone was going to create a Fediverse platform like this. Figured it would be the folks at either PixelFed or Peertube. Can’t wait to try it out!
Fucking hate short videos but if this gets normies on the federated side then I’m all for it
Wait, you want the normies here?
I consider myself a normie. It took me awhile to understand the fediverse.
Normies = lurkers
We are already here.
Yes, everyone deserves a bullshit free social experience. You’re more than welcome to go start your own instance that only federates with other hardcore nerd instances
Been following this for a while and can’t wait to see what it brings to the table. :-)
@PlasticHam nice!
Thanks! :-)
yaayyyyy! :-)
This is well timed considering the TikTok ban timeline. Loops will have enough time to sort out any bugs or issues right now with a slow trickle of traffic and then probably grow exponentially in the power vacuum left behind when TikTok vanishes from the various app stores.
I don’t think Loops will have the addicting effect like TikTok, which is a good thing, but I feel like that’s what most people want.
What are the chances we get a Fediverse YouTube eventually?
You mean Peertube?
I was aware of it, but is it part of the fediverse? If so, I was unaware. I thought it was around before.
As far as I can tell, it’s always used ActivityPub for instances to communicate with each other, with video streaming mainly facilitated using WebTorrent on the backend to keep use of the host low.
Great platform name. Though I like the idea, but it’s currently only one developer. It’s the same dev behind Pixelfed. He’s a good dev, but I feel like he’s stretching himself too thin to make both platforms the amount of development they need to pick up steam.
I’m waiting for algorithm. And start promoting it in the United States in the event of TikTok not going to sell.
Stretched too thin is an understatement.
Between Pixelfed, Sup, Loops, FediDB, fediverse.info, PubKit, all that comes with developing those, his main job, and whatever else he has cooking, I don’t like being so heavily dependent on the whims of one dev. I have mad respect for him and everything he has done, but this situation is definitely limiting the growth of the platforms, contributions to those platforms, and his general decision making on what to develop and how to prioritize.
I try to be optimistic because in the end what he’s doing is a net positive, but we’re going to need more than one man’s raw coding talent. That’s why although I’m exited for Loops, I’m tempering my expectations and expecting a cap on the popularity and adoption of Loops like with Pixelfed unless something changes.
I mean, it’s open source, right? Be the change etc.
Bet a killer feature for this would be pluggable recommendation algorithms.
EDIT; Clarity
Cool, a whole new way to learn about what every type of penis looks like
Love the fediverse.
If anybody’s interested in signing up for the rolling beta, here’s the link
Open source Tiktok?