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  • @kiddblur@lemm.eeEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    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

    • @eee@lemm.eeEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      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.

      • @xavier666@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        torrents worked on a massive scale is because

        • it’s a “run and forget” kind of technology
        • not real-time
        • very less resources per user is required
        • a sizable portion (not a lot) of users participated equally

        You can’t expect this from a fedi-powered gyfcat instance