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Tech-savvy content creators, sure...

Your average content creator that wants to make minecraft videos? Unrealistic.

I hate the monopoly youtube has, but all of the federated alternatives have a learning curve the general public isn't willing to deal with.

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You need to sign up and wait for a beta invite. Took 15-30 days for me to get in. It's not ready for primetime.

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May I recommend NewPipe on android? It's a proxy for YouTube/Bandcamp/Plus a bunch of other stuff including Peertube. As a creator, Peertube is nice, but yea, using it as a full time video watching platform just isn't viable rn unfortunately.

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That's not true. Moxie Marlinespike only had a problem with a fork called "LibreSignal" because it was using their name. He didn't want users to confuse the apps.

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They used to allow their client to be used to send unsecured SMS. Then they stopped. Whatever they thought they were doing, they killed the simplest path to onboarding laypeople they had. I kinda gave up on signal after that.

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Loops isnt even federated or open source yet. Deleted my account

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Not to mention it lacks any (ethical) monetization options. And the app is absolutely rudimentary, lacking even basic functionality.

Framasoft made it clear they don't want to make it a Youtube alternative though, however it could be through plugins. So there'd have to be a company or cooperative using it as a base to build upon, which is actually realistic. Especially European ones; not because Asia wouldn't be interested in being more independent on the US as well, but because Framasoft is from France and Europe actively works towards this goal anyway with lots of money behind it.

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NewPipe is awful for Peertube. You have to add AND SEARCH every single instance manually. It's only useful if there is a creator on a specific instance that you specifically want to watch.

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Thank you, this covers everything I could have thought of!

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I'm not really all that invested in trying out Friendica, because Facebook is basically the exact sort of social network service that I really don't give a darn about. I wanted to check it anyway, but the only tangible information on what Friendica is about is the project/marketing page. I can't browse the instances. If I go to your massive social platform, the last thing I want to see is just a brick wall of a login page. Then I looked at fedidb and... um, those aren't huge user numbers.

So I guess I'll keep posting on the services that seem more sensible to me, like Mastodon, Pixelfed and Lemmy.

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Signal is centralized, loops is closed source and not accepting new users.

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Originally it was supposed to be ActivityPub based, but recently the posted something about it being for XMPP, Matrix and IRC as well ‍️ Maybe they decided to fork Pidgin

IMHO Sup. isn't going to happen. They will have their hands more than full with Pixelfed's new popularity and maybe Loops.

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D* generally isn't, excepting the few instances that also speak AP.

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Where is matrix?

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Hidden inside the whatsapp->signal box in tiny faint font. I was wondering why there isn't a big "Discord -> Matrix"

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Given that I’ve waited 3 weeks to join his smaller instance of pixelfed.art, I can tell things are already piling up. I am hoping the kickstarter does help.

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Loops will be open sourced later they say.

Is Loops open source?
It will be! We plan on open sourcing the platform after it reaches a stable and easy to maintain state.

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Yeah it’s no where near ready for mass adoption. It’s made a couple improvements, but it crashes every time I try to leave a comment.

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That really is not a satisfying answer. It is incredibly nebulous and even if it did have a nice definition I guarantee most software developers will tell you a lot of software rarely reaches that state.

I can see why they might want to avoid 1000 GitHub issues bike shedding things but they could open source the code and just not have open contribution

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I already done my part. I only keep WhatsApp for professional reasons (and barely use it) but the rest is already done.

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