Mastodon has made me realize that i want decentralized versions of every social network
I want decentralized youtube, tumblr, soundcloud, all other social networks,
@Plumy yeah, it probably wouldn't get very far, but wow i wish it could work
@Plumy most small mastodon instances are like 5$ a month? That's not that expensive in the scheme of things, especially since that cost can be easily split across a couple dozen people
@nightpool @Plumy yeah, basic one on masto.host is 5 euro and they take care of the upkeeep!
@bea @nightpool yeah sure, I was mostly thinking about a "decentralized youtube" and about that would means in terms of server and stuff
@Plumy @nightpool ah yeah, transcoding can take quite a bit of power and the storage requirements can be a lot too
still... I think we can do better than we are now !
@verydumb hell, I want decentralized versions of every website. I want a virtual petside that anyone can make an instance of with different species of pets on each instance
@verydumb I think that decentralized YouTube is called BitTorrent.
@bortzmeyer @verydumb Have a look at @Chocobozzz work: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube/ 😉 (work in progress)
youtube -> mediagoblin tumbly -> lychee soundcloud -> koel facebook -> friendica or hubzilla
@verydumb the cool thing about the infrastructure of mastodon is that it's just a skin and you have tumblr, youtube, instagram.
soundcloud with its commenting on songs might be a bit different.
@verydumb meeee :D :D :D
@verydumb I am glad that an example of it helps convince people of that. It seems that very little else works.
Preventing data mining is difficult. You can restrict data to registered users and try to invoke the CFAA on them for unauthorized access (in the US), but other than that, data mining in the US and many other countries is transformative, and therefore fair use. In the case of federated networks, you're publishing (possibly a subset of) data to other services intentionally. There's no need to mine: you're feeding it to them directly.
If you're using a federated network to share private information, that's a different situation. People wouldn't want malicious NextCloud instances spying on their photos and calendars.
@nightpool aw yeah, someone mentioned it earlier, it sounds really cool!
@verydumb Glad to hear you like it. Some of us would actually take this one step further, beyond social media, to all multi-user software, including uber, ebay, doodle, google docs, fitbit, etc
@verydumb haha same, decentralized tumblr and reddit would be nice.
@verydumb you dangerous activist ! Why not a decentralized mail then ???
@verydumb #MediaGoblin is a decentralized media platform. It could serve as a YouTube/Instagram replacement
@verydumb I'd love to say that but I just arrived and I can't understand it 😂😂😂
@verydumb That would be cool but server and stuff cost a lot of money, mastodon instance are already expensive so imagine one with videos :/