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Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

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

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The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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

I meant more as "will be" when the time comes

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

I'm not hopeful. Video hosting is a different ball game, and free video platforms only exist due to the deep pockets and "users now, profit later" strategy of big tech.

The only way I see it working is where creators pay for the hosting costs of their own content and monetize on their own terms.