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We Need To Build A Healthier Alternative to Facebook! (lemmy.ca)

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

I love the idea of friendica but until my mother can upload a video and view it on a feed it's just not going to work. I've tried it out many times over the years and I just can't recommend it as a Facebook replacement for nontechnical users, not even just for sharing with family.

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

I tried to show an elderly friend friendica they got like 20 pages of fullcom shitposting so lol

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

My fantasy is Apple heating up a feud with Facebook and integrating some kind of “self hosting” into the iPhone. EG our Moms “upload” the video, but what really happens under the hood is the phone streams the video on demand to her family. IIRC there are similar swarming schemes out there already.

It sounds crazy, and it used to be, but smartphones/modems are so fast now they could host little web servers on their efficiency cores, without breaking a sweat.

…Otherwise, this is a difficult issue, as video is so expensive to centrally host.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

Apple would rather upload the video to their cloud.
Apple doesn't even allow torrenting to happen on their devices.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

In regards to storage costs, I'm happy to self host a good solution. But right now there are none.

Your idea about streaming from phones is pretty nice but as someone who uses lots of background data, it can suck up your battery. A good idea though and I don't think that stops it being feasible.

There was a project called Circles that used a Matrix server to host private rooms you could invite people to where it was more like a feed, with photo galleries and videos and things. It got funding pulled but as far as I could tell it didn't really have a future because they hit the limits of the technology stack, but it was a cool idea that was simple enough that you'd be able to get non-tech users onboard. Project is basically dead now though.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Hosting maybe, but there is no way you're serving any content from a phone on a mobile network from a mobile device. That's just a nonstarter.

Also, why is Apple any better than Facebook in this scenario?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I had this idea too and looked into it briefly. I.P. addresses on phones are like your home network where multiple devices are behind one address and being nat-ted I believe.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Apple is working on competing with AWS. Maybe they could offer hosting services for fediverse projects and provide a few grants to shiny platforms to reduce reliance on X and Facebook.