@SirCmpwn turns out opennes and open standards foster innovation? Who woulda thunk it! #ShockedShcked ;)

@rysiek @sircmpwn Just had fairly long convo on the legacy platform about video stuff, see these and various replies (also gah why can't you link to a whole conversation on bird twitter?) https://twitter.com/asteris/status/849230807290060802

@pettter @rysiek Mastodon put the first UI on GNUSocial that I like, I think a similar approach to MediaGoblin would be super good. Ads are a problem though

@SirCmpwn @pettter what ads?

@rysiek @pettter the problem is that there aren't any, which means a lot of creatives wouldn't come to the platform. A YouTube replacement can't just cater to the techies. Video bandwidth at scale is hella expensive, too

@sircmpwn @rysiek I think there are workarounds, if you acknowledge vagaries/problems with copyright in the digital age. Essentially, use Webtorrent or something similar to share streaming burden across all federated servers and viewing/helping users.

Ads... It's tricky. I'm not sure if there is a standard way of serving timestamped URLs for streaming along with the video? Could you base it on subtitles somehow? It needs to be based mostly on goodwill of all involved parties, anyway, which will obviously be harder than having a central authority (Google) declaring the truth of various things (ẗhis is an ad, this is a follower, this is a 'view')