Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement

So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit

  • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Another problem I see is monopolization. If there is only one platform with no competition, there is no incentive to innovate. Good example is YouTube. No one can just afford tbps of bandwidth and exa or even zettabytes of storage, so federation (PeerTube) is a way to balance and distribute the load over many individual servers/nodes. (PeerTube also uses a p2p streaming mechanism to reduce strain on the server)

    • pain_is_life_is_pain@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Wow, there’s so many new things to play with! Never heard of PeerTube before, but excited about the idea of a federated YouTube challenger!

      And it looks like there’s no shorts on PT? Awesome!

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      1 year ago

      exactly. the internet was historically much more decentralized. laziness, ignorance and apathy got us to the centralized mess we are in today.

      we (the unwashed masses of the world) cant directly compete on raw dedicated bandwidth and storage, but we can complete on quality and raw decentralized accessibility. the decentralization helps to mitigate the centralized storage and bandwidth advantages of the big players.

      with enough federated instances, we will have a massively redundent medium through which like minded users can congregate and share ideas in a federated and self organizing way. the possibilities are pretty damn tantalizing.