Not before they render the remainder of the internet useless.

Agree, those look A LOT like AI.

There’s no “solidifying” anything with this guy. His reign is based on his whims and emotions.

Assuming he has one before he died.

They could. Or Trump could fold tomorrow. No one knows. I don’t even think Trump knows.

It does but that’s beside the point. We’re discussing a hypothetical future.

This is just 12 different kinds of incorrect.

Think of how much diak space YouTube is using

Disk space will be the least of your concerns when running a service like YT.

If everyone can’t upload videos it we’ll never replace YouTube.

1. Everyone CAN upload videos to their own instance.
2. It doesn’t have to replace YouTube. It can exist alongside it as a competitor.

There is already a plug-in that supports that, along with Stripe integration.

100 subscriber is NBD. Let’s talk when you have thousands or even millions of active users. At some point you’re going to hit a wall if you were to hypothetically scale up. Costs of service would need to be covered somehow.

The sustainability argument stems from technological constraints. YouTube as a company has no problem sustaining millions of dollars in server infrastructure to serve media. Most self-hosters wouldn’t be able to do that without significant income.

I don’t agree with this perspective but also don’t know enough about server infrastructure or video streaming to argue against it.

This is a great name…

If you have your own domain how are they going to trace that to anyone else?

volunteer-run services are much less likely to use your email address for nefarious purposes

Less likely, sure. Still very possible? Yes. Not a risk I’m interested in taking.

save the tinfoil hats for BigTech™

You’re free to do what you want with your instance but you’re extremely naive if you think selling/leaking contact info is “tinfoil hat” territory.

Was the Signal fork FOSS?

That defeats the purpose.

Not this again…

We are not going by “number of features”, we’re “going by” one specific feature.

What does that have to do with anything? You think Reddit not banning them is acknowledgement?

Does “Reddit” acknowledge the existence of Facebook, Twitter or Digg?

You may have glossed over the part where I said this is not premium hardware. Even bargain basement Android phones come with USB3. They’ve gone out of their way to ensure their less expensive (but still very expensive) devices have bad hardware.