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so, which Big Tech company do you think is going to shit the bed next and popularize its Fediverse/FOSS equivalent in the process? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm personally crossing my fingers for Discord.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The other problem with YouTube/twitch alts as opposed to reddit/twitter is that a lot of the creators people like the most actually rely on those platforms to serve ads in order to make a living. That content can't exist on FOSS systems unless they somehow manage to attract advertisers, which seems next to impossible

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like the trend is going towards serving ads in stream anyways, the twitch ad/ad blocking war is/(was?) ongoing last I checked.

I don't see why that would be impossible in a federated setting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

While some streamers could get direct sponsors, that option is really only available to a select few of the most popular ones, and would still deprive them of the extra income they currently get from ads served by the platform. You'd have to convince advertisers to trust that each instance is going to serve their ads fairly and not additionally host content they don't like. A system to distribute ads between instances would be complicated enough to write in the first place; these sites have a lot of QoL updates to push before they even think about doing something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's definitely a good point. Even the creators that do get sponsorships also get money from the ads.