I do have to disagree with this post, I think it's you who need more research if you really think that kickstarter suggests they haven't heard of the fediverse.

Haven: Better Instagram & YouTube, to Stop AI & Surveillance Social media that prevents Big Tech & AI from stealing your art, your biometrics, and your privacy. We're replacing Insta and YouTube.

The fediverse does NOT prevent big tech and ai from stealing your stuff. it actually makes it easier. They just need a shell instance to subscribe to stuff and the fediverse hands everything to them for free, including your votes.

I'm all for the fediverse myself, but that's because I don't personally care about this that much. If I did, I wouldn't want to be here where we're the most vulnerable out of anywhere.

The fediverse doesn't protect against AI training. Quite the opposite, in fact.

The fediverse is nice people and great tech, with a marketing problem.

I think someone didn’t do the research neded. (sic)

You certainly didn't.

• Plenty of artists are worried about AI being trained on their data. No fediverse "platform" protects from it.
• Plenty of artists want to have a way to monetize their work. No fediverse "platform" does it. The one that did try to do it (sub.club) shut down for insufficient interest

$126k and you know he will only fork some fediverse code.

Doesn't look like we'll ever see the source code of this thing either

He did the research. This is no different than Truth Social or Gabb, where off the shelf platforms already do all these things.

If this guy hosts it all himself, and doesn't federate it, then that's literally what already exists out there. He doesn't want to leave the walled garden. He wants his own walled garden, and for you to plant flowers there.

We're different! Trust us!

Fediverse is great and all, but it doesn't have any AI countermeasures.

Picture this. Instagram but better. MONEY PLEASE

that project is off to a bad start in my opinion. This is their second attempt at this and they are still only asking 10k for a platform that's going to compete with YouTube? Sure they funded 100k but... where's the cash flow. Investors are not going to jump at a poisoner. Drive space cost money, and a poisoning system is also going to require gpu rendering ontop of whatever rendering is required for consumption.

Considering their primary revenue sources is intended to be user contribution via subscribers or their share of the content manager system... I really don't see how they expect to maintain sustainable

I wish them the best of luck though.

My guess is they're trying to take it one step further than the fediverse, still be centralized, still monetize content which they then get a slice of.

They are going to use an LLM to make it

I dont think its possible and thus its a scam in my eyes.

I don't hate the idea but I'm sure it will be enshittified nearly immediately .

Fediverse… I don’t think that word means what you think it means.