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Pretty much in the title. Maybe you wouldn't even use it, but would like to simply see it exist for the sake of having a federated alternative.

For me, it'd be the following:

  • LinkedIn
  • Meetup
  • Tiktok

I am on the first two, but would prefer a federated alternative. I'm not on Tiktok, but would like to see a federated alternative.

I'll admit these might not be a good idea. But as a thought experiment, I'd be curious about the community weigh in on what you all think this might look like.

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[โ€“] Plopp 23 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Yeah the data is an issue for sure. I wonder if torrents of some kind would help making it more doable, where viewers (on computers, not phones) build up a cache from which they also seed. Like Spotify did when they started out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZeroNet

Something similar to this might help disburse the load required for peertube. What sites you read you host in return, very much like with bit torrent with a presentation layer tacked on top.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I think you are looking for something like ipfs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I think the cache would also have to partially be on phones. If users are to 'pay' for using the network by caching/redistributing part of it, since most people access the web from phones

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah viewing devices would all have to share hosting duties. Iโ€™m sure it could work, and popular/viral videos would serve well as the demand would be spread across the most devices as well.

There would still have to be dedicated seed servers for long tail content though I imagine.