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Mastodon exploded when Elon took over Twitter. Lemmy exploded when Reddit changed it's api rules. I think the problem is not that YouTube doesn't fuck things up, because they often do. Perhaps the alternatives are not good enough for early majority to migrate. We need more early adopters to migrate ASAP. (I'm thinking of PeerTube, but perhaps Odyssee has beter changes at the moment)
One thing that's tricky with alternatives is just the massive bandwidth needed. You don't need nearly as much for lemmy or mastodon
yeah, i fear that this is only going to become even remotely viable if, and only if, the user base at large can figure out how to coordinate communal hosting. Perhaps it'll be rather slow, too, and/or difficult to use with a mobile device due to datacaps, low availability of storage space, and limited bandwidth...
if we enter a future where most people have a dedicated spare computer rig in their homes or a subscription to a private webserver farm that exists JUST to host peer to peer encrypted blackbox user-driven-content, maybe it might someday become viable.
imagine if purchasing an allotment of webspace became an essential part of one's online identity every bit as much as having a primary email address for identity verification (as it ALREADY IS, which is crazy enough in itself)
Like, imagine carrying a dedicated mobile device with a 5g data plan, basically just a glorified multi-terabye wireless mobile SSD with a dedicated battery, whose sole purpose is to be part of the cloudhost swarm. It's just part of your extended personal datasphere now. And hell, you can rent out part of its space to companies or people, even. Bytes of Storage become a secondary currency... I'm not saying I look forward to this, but ... I could almost see it happening.
You are literally describing cryptocurrencies in the last paragraph.
Why would it need to be wireless? You can just place it connected to the wall. That's literally a mining rig. You let companies and people use your processing power (or storage in some cases) for a fee (the mined coin).
I think this may be the perfect description for Web3 tbh.