cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/5294605
Youtube, for so many years, was just too good. Yes, they changed the 5 star rating system to likes and dislikes and a few years later disabled dislikes altogether, but their algorithm mostly digs up interesting content and it just works for creators and viewers.
This might change soon. Their new strategy to disallow ad-blockers will frustrate a certain kind of viewer. Those who dislike surveillance and like open-source tech, those who use uBlock Origin and know why.
Just like a few years ago mastodon suddenly reached a certain kind of popularity, because twitter had their first big fuckup, maybe Peertube is next. It certainly is the most polished decentralized solution that doesn’t use a blockchain. Creators or fans could easily host their own videos, fans can watch it, without ads.
This isn’t as much a reply to you as it is to everybody:
The fediverse isn’t meant to be centralized with big instances bearing the brunt of the load.
It costs less than 5€ a month for a cheap VPS, as you say it’s pretty easy to set up (If you can reformat a computer, you have the skills to set up a plethora of federated platform). That includes 200GB storage and 32TB of outbound traffic, and one could even set up a home “CDN” PeerTube to share the load.
I don’t want big creators making clickbaity content just to make money. I don’t want the fediverse to be commersialized. I want enthusiasts and those willing to make an effort to be more free.
For some that means setting up their own systems. For some that merely means making a Mastodon account (big step for some people, believe it or not).
It takes some effort, it takes some learning. It might even mean that people won’t get disgustingly rich. But we can make a new internet.
Let’s not being the old ways there.
Thank you I was surprised by the negative reaction here. I thought people on lemmy were interested in alternative solutions to big tech