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Tiktok alternatives on Fediverse? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by BreakNeckJim@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works
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I'm just wondering if there is some sort of alternative to Tiktok on the Fediverse?

I understand that something like Tiktok needs a critical mass of users, but just curious if someone has attempted it?

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[–] netwren@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No comments on this yet. YouTube has PeerTube but others have discussed the difficulty of paying for hosting for video vs text. With the problem of "who's paying" not yet figured out it might be too difficult to manage.

[–] JerkyIsSuperior@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

While I understand that some people like video content, the absolute saturation of low quality clips, culminating in TikTok sludge has been detriminal to the quality of online discourse. Not everything needs to be TV 2.0, and I would like for the Fediverse to avoid the dreaded "pivot to video" for as long as possible.

[–] Otakeb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I think eventually storage density will scale beyond data size growth and we will reach a point where even videos are nothing and then distributed video hosting will be possible, but it's probably a ways off. Think about how much it took to just store text files or music like 30 years ago vs now. We aren't there yet but it may happen.

[–] kudzu@forum.fail 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's goldfish.social but it's still heavily in development and I'm not even sure if it's federated yet 😅 it's just the closest I know of (haven't used it so don't know how operational it is)