Happy #GlobalSwitchDay
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Lemmy is fine, just change the color of background.
Peertube is... well... needs improvement...
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Then email is a part of the fediverse? UUCP nets? IRC nets?
All federated, none speak AP.
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Loops really isn't ready for primetime. It's too new and unpolished, and will need a bit more time.
I wonder if peertube can scale. YouTube has a whole sophisticated system for ingesting and transcoding videos into dozens of formats, with tradeoffs being made on computational complexity versus file size/bandwidth, which requires some projection on which videos will be downloaded the most times in the future (and by which types of clients, with support for which codecs, etc.). Doing this can require a lot of networking/computing/memory/storage resources, and I wonder if the software can scale.
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You also can't just switch from whatsapp to signal. I have hundreds of contacts on whatsapp that message me constantly there, and 2 on signal.
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I got the PeerTube android app. It's very bare bones. As a first foray into peertube I'm not sure it's the way to go. I think I've set myself up for failure.
Anycase, I'll dedicate some time to try find some pocket of content I like tomorrow. Getting away from YouTube sure would be nice.
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Tech-savvy content creators, sure...
Your average content creator that wants to make minecraft videos? Unrealistic.
I hate the monopoly youtube has, but all of the federated alternatives have a learning curve the general public isn't willing to deal with.
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You need to sign up and wait for a beta invite. Took 15-30 days for me to get in. It's not ready for primetime.
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I got the PeerTube android app. It's very bare bones. As a first foray into peertube I'm not sure it's the way to go. I think I've set myself up for failure.
Anycase, I'll dedicate some time to try find some pocket of content I like tomorrow. Getting away from YouTube sure would be nice.
May I recommend NewPipe on android? It's a proxy for YouTube/Bandcamp/Plus a bunch of other stuff including Peertube. As a creator, Peertube is nice, but yea, using it as a full time video watching platform just isn't viable rn unfortunately.
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Signal is hostile to third party clients like Molly.im as well
That's not true. Moxie Marlinespike only had a problem with a fork called "LibreSignal" because it was using their name. He didn't want users to confuse the apps.
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Loops isnt even federated or open source yet. Deleted my account
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Tech-savvy content creators, sure...
Your average content creator that wants to make minecraft videos? Unrealistic.
I hate the monopoly youtube has, but all of the federated alternatives have a learning curve the general public isn't willing to deal with.
Not to mention it lacks any (ethical) monetization options. And the app is absolutely rudimentary, lacking even basic functionality.
Framasoft made it clear they don't want to make it a Youtube alternative though, however it could be through plugins. So there'd have to be a company or cooperative using it as a base to build upon, which is actually realistic. Especially European ones; not because Asia wouldn't be interested in being more independent on the US as well, but because Framasoft is from France and Europe actively works towards this goal anyway with lots of money behind it.
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May I recommend NewPipe on android? It's a proxy for YouTube/Bandcamp/Plus a bunch of other stuff including Peertube. As a creator, Peertube is nice, but yea, using it as a full time video watching platform just isn't viable rn unfortunately.
NewPipe is awful for Peertube. You have to add AND SEARCH every single instance manually. It's only useful if there is a creator on a specific instance that you specifically want to watch.
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Thank you, this covers everything I could have thought of!
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Signal is centralized, loops is closed source and not accepting new users.
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D* generally isn't, excepting the few instances that also speak AP.
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