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What do you guys think the world really needs from open-source, online communities right now? I'm building yet another microblogging thing. It's awesome and I think you guys are going to really like it. But I feel like there's some idea floating in the ether that we haven't grasped yet. Something new.
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7fqx 2y ago

Maybe too obvious, but feels like the YouTube alt world hasn't found a secure platform. Much uncertainty about rumble (censored in Brazil), odysee, Bitchute etc. Maybe peertube solved this? 🤔

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Alex Gleason 2y ago

We talked about this a lot at Truth Social.

Video hosting requires a lot of disk space and network bandwidth. PeerTube in theory tries to get around this with WebTorrent. But its biggest failure is in ActivityPub as a protocol itself, because you get none of the advantages of it on PeerTube. It's just a sioled self-hosted video platform.

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7fqx 2y ago

I think it seems a problem of deep pockets (do any of the alts have a long term business model?) and needing a 'good enough' amount of uncensorship. Tbh I'm surprised Elon hasn't just built a Video tab into X to compete with video alts.