Pixelfed just overtook Lemmy as the 4th most used Fediverse software.

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Pixelfed allows video?

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I just can't imagine who will pay for that sort of reach. It's incredibly expensive for self hosting operations like TikTok. I'd imagine it'd be outrageous without a CDN.

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Different metrics on profitability. Are you judging their hosting costs on how much it actually costs Google to add more in their already existing data centers for YouTube like a good vertically integrated monopoly or are you judging their hosting costs on how much their google cloud bill would be. You'll get wildly different numbers depending on the method.

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LMAO see I was being polite, and you said "no no no I was being very rude" as if that helps you. Oh god. And then you say "humble yourself" lol. Wow you need to look in the mirror.

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I see what you mean, it's good to clarify. This was all according to my keikaku

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Well I can see this is no longer going to be productive, assuming it ever was. Good luck out there dude. I don’t know what “out“ you thought I needed but I feel very comfortable with everything I have said so far.

Feel free to have the last word, I’m sure it’s very important to you.

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That's actually not true. Lemmy.world and lemmy.dbzer0.com are fully federated, you can see for yourself if you check the instances tab.

The only thing that people incessantly complain about is that lemmy.world blocked one single community from dbzer0, the piracy community. For an account on lemmy.dbzer0, that has absolutely no effect. For an account on lemmy.world, that just means they need an alt if they want to participate in that one community. They two userbases can still fully interact all over lemmy, it's just that lemmy.world decided to block the piracy community to cover their asses legally.

Look, here's https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

But people make such a big deal about that one blocked community that a lot of people get the idea that they are defederated or something. You're not the first person I've had to correct about this, not even the first this week lol.

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Well I can see this is no longer going to be productive,

Says the guy that gleefully ~~admits~~brags about calling people nazis lol.

Oh and you still feel the need to provoke and slap. Still haven't taken that look in the mirror huh.

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Maybe a CDN funded through a few non-profits, never looked into it

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The only reason why no company could take over TikTok is their algorithm, its the worst yet the best part of the app, since you only see stuff you like, without having to search for similar accounts. I’ve been feeling lonely on the Fedi compared to other socials

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Huh. Are you using the web browser or an app? Oddly, when I browse my gram.social home feed via the web browser, it's mostly (but not exclusively) just the default accounts in my feed, but when I browse via the Pixelfed, PixelDroid, or Pixelix apps, I'm seeing lots of posts coming from many other servers, including Mastodon servers.

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Every one of these federated apps needs a strong meme feed. Just an endless stream of shitposts and funny content. Doesn't need to be doomscrolling, just needs to be a constantly available source of low effort junk food content

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It's hilarious because it is so distracting ... I scroll down my page and see this loading icon and it took me several passes before I got used to it.

It's like Pavlov's dog .... I see a loading icon and I immediately sit there and wait ... for something, I don't know what but I have to wait ... I took me a few times before I got used to it.

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With the data from https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/list,

Honestly neither of these give a very good impression of where users are from, but I don't think lemmy collects that data. Maybe if there was some way to check which languages people have listed?

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It’s like saying “people share photos and videos all the time on Twitter. What is the difference with Instagram?”

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Honestly, for how many tech/open source people are on lemmy its surprising how few community contributions there are to the actual software.

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Yeah, discoverability is work on Fedi, unfortunately most people would rather consume algo content from a bad source then work to find good people to follow.

Everything is open, I suspect if we REALLY wanted to we could make an indexing service to help surface content based on preferences, but then that's a high value target for corporate America to farm. Also it would be pretty expensive to pay for it

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I’d imagine it’d be outrageous without a CDN.

The idea is you'd have dozens or hundreds of people hosting loops and they'd each spread the cost among them and get funded by followers and philanthropists. Most lemmy instances use CDN, but it's nowhere near as heavy media-wise.

You could also go the Peertube route and have the client share what you're watching with other people torrent style.

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