This is actually pretty exciting. Excited to see how this turns out. But I am wondering how to keep it financially possible to operate the platform. Also, 95+% of the users probably don't care that much about censorship and privacy enough to switch platform.

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zahlman 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I would have thought that the point of federation is not to require centralized servers that cost a lot to operate.

But sure, something like this probably requires a fundamentally different revenue model. Maybe even the one where people donate to server operators.

	▲	Barrin92 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		centralized servers cost less to operate, that why data intensive applications centralize over time. That's division of labor. The higher the complexity the the higher degree of specialization. And a video service is very demanding. And you need to solve the economics first because otherwise your decentralized service is simply going to centralize over time to deal with demands for a more reliable and higher quality service. (and how to compensate creators)