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Show threadViolaSep 23, 2023

@Gargron What will happen then? Something good? Something Bad?

And I want to ad music to pictures and Videos, to avoid Insta and TiKTok

Could you do Magic? 🥺 Magic it happen, please?

Show threadSteve GisselbrechtSep 23, 2023

@ViolaB

It sounds like maybe you wanna check out peertube? It's a part of the fediverse that offers something like that, and you can follow those accounts from mastodon accounts.

Show threadViolaSep 23, 2023

@stevegis_ssg

Okay, why is this so complicated for peole which aren't nerds?

Show threadFlorens VerscheldeSep 23, 2023
@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Mostly because it costs dozens of dollars per user per year to design, code and manage infrastructure for this kind of feature. More if you’re a frequent poster of audio/video.
Show threadFlorens VerscheldeSep 23, 2023
@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Big commercial services such as YouTube or TikTok fund this work with billions of investment, and try to turn a profit by showing you ads. If they're cheap or are showing only a few ads, they're probably not profitable yet, and are losing billions a year trying to corner the market (to raise prices or show more ads later, see Uber for instance, or Prime Video).
Show threadFlorens VerscheldeSep 23, 2023

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Independent services like Mastodon and PeerTube try to provide similar services which are funded in a few ways:

- federation, which means splitting the hosting and maintenance costs between many organizations (so you don't need a billion dollar company, you can have many $10–500k services)
- donations
- for PeerTube: peer-to-peer streaming (make users share data directly to reduce bandwidth used by the instances; think carpooling instead of taxis)

Show threadFlorens Verschelde
@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Those funding and cost management methods have some consequences in the user experience. There isn't one billion-dollar entity that can hire an army of designers and developers and pay for huge datacenters full of servers. Most developers and designers are volunteers, or at best a handful of people funded by donations. The cost-splitting strategy means users have to manage choices like "choose an instance".
Sep 23, 2023 at 8:12amWeb