Fun fact, video files are extremely big and cost money to host. It's a neat idea but will never be scalable in the same way that YouTube is without some form of monetization

They are escalating n paying customers too...

Imagine paying 15 bucks for something having their shit shoved up your ass without consent, audio is compressed junk. They turn off 4k randomly etc...

They don't pay for any content really either just serving ads to plebs and booking profits... How are they not making money?

Oh please I hope so.

It's so frustrating how many youtube creators have to play stupid games just to make it so that their own subscribers see their videos. If I'm subscribed, I wanna see on my home screen when a new video is added by someone I'm subscribed too. I don't wanna see clickbait_master_10,000's newest video on there. Like there are so many content creators with millions of subs, who get no views because the aLgOrItHm decided people don't wanna see their videos, even though all those people subbed to them.

Ditto. And this could work really well when coupled with Lemmy, as wikis often have a comments section, that Lemmy could provide them.

I really hate how interwiki navigation sucks on Fandom. Like, they've done all this branding and centralizing of the Fandom platform, yet I'm pretty sure they only fairly recently started logging you in on all wikis whenever you signed in on one.

Its all just to try and be some hip pop culture thing for use to "consoom" without any effort to actually take advantage of being a central platform for the repository of lore from across culture.

I mean I think it's popular enough to be usable at least! Which is the biggest problem with new social media, all the features in the world mean nothing if there is a small user base.

For some reason whenever I go there these days to see what my family has posted, I'll sometimes get 4 suggested content posts in a row. With recently them being like super anti vegetarian and anti electric vehicle.

As a vegetarian who uses electric vehicles, I know I'm silly, but I don't need facebook reminding me all the time!

Bring back "sort by new" as well. No idea what they were thinking there. No I don't need to see the same 3 top popular posts for a week straight.

I was looking at Facebook the other day, first time in a while, and the amount of suggested content just in the feed is ridiculous. And my feed kept showing different stuff any time I reloaded, so I have no idea if I missed any updates from anyone I actually care about. It's just so shit.

I know Mastodon is more like Twitter but, I feel like it could also replace much of Facebooks functions too?

Go to Feeds. You can even pin it directly to the navigation bar.

Pixelfed was my answer too. I don't do a lot of photo stuff, so I mostly stay on Mastodon/Lemmy, but the Dev is a really neat guy who seems like he needs to stay busy (have you heard of Sup yet?)

What app or apps can you use to access PixelFed?

I'm not really a fan of BTC becoming more wide spread. I'd prefer something more akin to GNU Taler.

There is Funkwhale that you can use for self-publishing music. You can also upload your music library privately to listen to remotely.

I found Friendica to work well for one user, but as soon as you add more, you really need to scale up and it gets very expensive to host very fast. I also had this issue where Google would just block my server, so anyone with a gmail account couldn't get their login info...

There are things I like about it, and as the Fediverse as a whole starts growing, I might just set up a single-use Friendica instance for myself, but be prepared for headaches if you want to get a "small" server for your family.

Hey Rev! Long time no see, hope you've been doing well!