noodlejetskiso, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process?
I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.
swntWhat about YouTube?
I looked online and there seems to be PeerTube at least.
PolDeltaI would love for something to replace YouTube, especially something in the Fediverse, but video unfortunately has much higher storage and bandwidth requirements, so it's hard to imagine that not being totally cost prohibitive at high levels of traffic, even if it's split across so many different servers. I'd love to be wrong on that, though.
Fair point. I hadn't thought much about the bandwidth and storage stuff. Reddit and co. are comparitively cheaper.
Yeah, video is just that much more expensive to store. I am sure a lot of current Lemmy instances are still lighter that some "cat meowing for 3 hours" video. And let's not talk about all of those channels that upload dozens of gigabytes of data on a daily basis. I fear we may never have a suitable replacement to YouTube (that it's not just another asshole mega corporation).
YouTube has been upsetting its users for over a decade now and also needs to make more money. The only thing stopping it from being overtaken is the sheer amount of infrastructure required to host videos on that scale.
There's also 'Indivious', which they've been trying to sue (it's just a FOSS alternative, not federated)
It is very useful, but it is just a frontend to youtube, not really an alternative.