i’m really interested to see where this goes. i feel like a lot of the dorks (i say affectionately as a dork) who use the fediverse and people who do this kinda shortform video are two circles that don’t touch, so this could very well die on the vine- no pun intended- or it could give the fedi the jolt it needs to enter the mainstream
I’m really skeptical of its success primarily due to the immense costs of hosting video. Peertube exists already, and isn’t nearly as successful as Mastodon/Lemmy primarily due to its hosting costs.
Yeah I wish there was a way to contribute to the hosting with torrent-like seeding. My phone can seed a torrent, but its not going to host an instance.
1 like = seed for 1 month seems like an interesting model
Naah I thought about this before and came to the conclusion that this isn’t that bright of an idea. Here’s why.
Why’s video hosting so expensive in the first place? Because it needs a lot of computational power, storage and bandwidth. All three things that a mobile phone does not have. If you make your client’s mobile phone do this stuff, then you’re going to slow down their phone, make it heat up more, make it degrade faster (because it would be drawing power from the battery) and take up a huge chunk of their bandwidth.
Think of how video calls drain battery really fast. It’s just shifting the costs of hosting from the hosting side to the consumer side while making the entire operation a lot more complicated and a lot more inefficient.
I use TikTok (around a hour a day) and use the Fediverse too(Mbin and Misskey fork), so I guess I am a target audience, so they do touch, pfft
Also there’s Pixelfed userbase, I think they would like short form video platform, cause Instagram has it
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Storage costs is the biggest hurdle for decentralized video platforms. I wonder how instances will handle that.
Even Bluesky is limiting video uploads heavily. And it’s centralized. (As far as I understand.)
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Sorry I stopped reading your comment after four words. Could you condense it to a five second clip with another following on within a secon sorry I forgot what we were talking about
Sorry, I couldn’t follow your comment. Could you please interlay a second text in a different color that has poop jokes so I can have enough things to focus on? An injected mp4 of someone stapling sheet aluminum would help, too.
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Honestly just one or the other is OK. But having neither is an issue
Hopefully it’s time it’s not postponed 😄
Fingers crossed
Is google recaptcha still only good option?
So, has anyone given it a try?
People seem to be waiting for the activation email
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So feediverse tictok?
Except it’s been ripped from TikTok first
Fediverse Vine, I hope.
Could I use my lemm.ee account and connect to it somehow?
Edit: signed up using my lemmy user (user@lemm.ee) I have no idea if this will work or not.
Nope, Lemmy does not support OAuth.
Damn that sucks. Cause I tried to sign up under another email and it says the user is taken
A non-evil, non-corporate tiktok has some huge potential.
I hope it works.
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Be patient. It seems like they are manually sending out activation emails. You should receive it this week.
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Same
Now it’s working.
Signed up
Why do I need to create a new account for it? At least it should let me sign in with pixelfed account right?
I just used my same Pixelfed login info
There is no sign in button though
No, you’ve never been able to sign into different fediverse instances with your account (to my knowledge). You can interact with other instances through yours, yes, but you don’t go to the others and sign in.
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