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The enshittification of the Internet continues. I loved gfycat for short videos that didn't need sound. It's high time to stop using proprietary, corporate controlled Internet because it seems like this model is guaranteed to die eventually. We need a fedi gfycat alternative. Does pixelfed convert your phone videos into gif-like "images"? I know they were technically videos but gfycat made them work like old-school gifs perfectly.
It’s a tough spot to be in, and one that I’m not convinced the fediverse will solve. Stuff has to get hosted somewhere, and video hosting is expensive. Taking away control from giant companies is great, but I don’t see what’s in it for people to take on hundreds or thousands of dollars a month in hosting cost for their instances without making any money from it.
Right now I think fediverse users are power users who are much more likely to contribute, but if lemmy or mammoth ever got as big as Reddit or Twitter, the vast majority of users won’t be willing to pay, and I don’t see how that works
I know nothing technical about how the fediverse works, but I can potentially see a bittorrent-like future for the fediverse, with people contributing spare compute power or bandwidth to the network when they're online.
torrents worked on a massive scale is because
You can't expect this from a fedi-powered gyfcat instance