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Anyone has a guess as to why federated alternatives to youtube like odysee haven't caught on already ? So much content censored in the last years, there should

by bsaul 5y ago

Anyone has a guess as to why federated alternatives to youtube like odysee haven't caught on already ? So much content censored in the last years, there should be a lot of reasons to move. Is it because of the lack of monetization ?

karatinversion 5y ago
If anything, the trend is in the other direction: podcasts were once federated, but it’s getting rarer and rarer to be able to get the raw feed instead of going through a platform tied to a client (Spotify, Apple podcasts etc)
indigochill 5y ago
End users are conditioned to think of the WWW as a monolith rather than a network of smaller networks, so they don't want to visit "myfriendsfederatedpod.net", they want to visit "platform.com". Also on the content producer's side, server administration is scary and/or biz-admin overhead.
IsThisYou 5y ago