Please no open source TikTok, idiots don’t need another platform
this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2023
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We just need to bring Vine back, or a Fediverse version of it.
We need to compete against TikTok somehow
Mmm no we dont
I will point out that Mastodon and Pixelfed are Federated and open source versions of Twitter and Instagram respectively. Although, I do remember seeing something about Pixelfed's founder stepping away for a while.
We supposedly also have peertube for a fediverse youtube and apparently nextcloud joined the fediverse as well. Were already much bigger than we know.
Mastodon is and has been the Twitter replacement for awhile.
Alternatives for many things already exist. Only thing missing for many is large enough userbase. We can't trust every company to shoot themselves into foot like reddit did nor can we trust they will do it thoroughly enough. We can build what we have into inherently better services than what corporations have.
We probably can't recreate all the bells and whistles as the corporations have made, but actual freedom to do what we want, be it creating content or improving the services itself, is worth more than anything those moneygrubbing shits can create.
I don’t think the user base needs to hit the size of Reddit. It just needs to reach a size of critical mass where discussions are productive. I for one have not unsubscribe from Reddit, but I have killed my paid account and will promote the use of Lemmy, wherever possible, mostly by posting and participating in the groups I’m interested in.
Mastodon and Pixelfed predate Lemmy
Mastodon in particular had a big boom after the whole deal with Musk. It's more popular than Lemmy still.
Open source TikTok is a different deal, uploading videos takes a lot of storage space. Plus it's hard to imagine TikTok really taking off without the corporate motivations behind it.