-Instagram has pixelfed. -Reddit has lemmy -X has Mastodon/Misskey/Pleroma (&forks..) -Tiktok has loops (app still super rough around the edges and sadly on limited to one instance rather than having its own software from what i understand) -Youtube has peertube (so far the least used i think)

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 2 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

Is there federated Tumblr? @Newbuild@lemmy.nz is still on Tumblr and drag wants to get thing away from corporate media even if Tumblr has a better record than literally every other corpo media

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 minutes ago

Microblogging is covered by Mastodon and Pleroma. People there could easily use them for the same content. There are a ton of options to crosspost tumblr to Mastodon.

The biggest problem is discovery on Tumblr is a LOT easier than Mastodon, you have to advertise and advocate for yourself

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Sorry, genuinely forgot what tumblr even does/is lol.

[–] dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 0 points 1 hour ago

lmao. Bot got drag to make an account and tried to teach drag, and drag still doesn't get it either. Bot can explain.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 28 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

I can't wait for peertube to take off. I think of all of the social medias, youtube has the most enduring monopoly, because hosting is such a huge barrier it's got even more of a natural monopoly than regular social media.

I think once peertube can start ascending that might be the ballgame for decentralised social media in general.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Exactly!! YouTube is by far the best "social" platform (or least shit) and sadly the strongest monopoly. Cus what the fuck is a newly made competitor gonna do? Rip all YouTube videos and host them? People on IG and X etc don't really go around looking at old posts, those places are more for looking at what's new and such. On YouTube however its entirely game that u find a dope edutainment video from years ago that you happen to vibe with.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 hour ago

That is very true, and I think some kind of archive is going to be important eventually. I think to get around the hosting costs, one method could be for peertube instances to form a union of instances for collective purchases, because the cost goes down with scale.

With a large enough group you could even split hosting among different providers to prevent a monopoly from forming in the hosting space.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Does peertube have monetization for creator's? Because that's how you get content that most people watch.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 7 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Honestly youtube barely has it currently. The vast majority of creators make very little on the platform and rely largely on supporter donations, merch and sponsorships, which could work on any platform.

By squeezing creators out of every penny they can, youtube has forced people to find other options abd made themselves less and less relevant. I guess that's enshittification for you.

You can also gate access to certain videos on peertube, so a nebula-like model might also work eventually.

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 hour ago

I'm genuinely confused. Is YouTube even profitable ATP? Hard to imagine it not being so but they've been doubling down on squeezing out every coin they can, trying to fight adblock is one example, pushing out more ads too. Wtf even is going on over there.

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I dont understand how to join or post on peertube, its the most confusing, do you host your own, is there a feed of all the servers?

[–] bruhsoulz@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

You just pick an instance and join it, sadly i don't think it has enough federation yet so its entirely possible u just chose a bad instance and have amazing creators sitting on other instances yours isn't federated with

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 hour ago

If you f up and join lemmy.dbzero you wont see any posts from lemmyworld users and the same issue if you join the other

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 1 points 5 hours ago

Does this help?

https://docs.joinpeertube.org/use/setup-account

[–] pmk@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 8 hours ago

Where does Honk fit into this? https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk