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Viola

@Gargron What will happen then? Something good? Something Bad?

And I want to ad music to pictures and Videos, to avoid Insta and TiKTok

Could you do Magic? 🥺 Magic it happen, please?

@ViolaB If you enable it, people will be able to find your posts when they do a search (without needing to use hashtags). For example if you opt in and someone searched for "magic" on Mastodon, your post would show up.

Note that public posts can still be searched with a normal search engine even with the setting off.

Pixelfed ( pixelfed.org ) is an Insta replacement if you haven't seen that yet. A Stories feature is being developed, but it might not have a music library like TikTok.

PixelfedPixelfed - Decentralized social mediaLearn more about Pixelfed, the free and open-source decentralized photo sharing social media platform

@MHLoppy @ViolaB that's such a good answer. Brilliant & thank you

@ViolaB

It sounds like maybe you wanna check out peertube? It's a part of the fediverse that offers something like that, and you can follow those accounts from mastodon accounts.

@stevegis_ssg

Okay, why is this so complicated for peole which aren't nerds?

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Mostly because it costs dozens of dollars per user per year to design, code and manage infrastructure for this kind of feature. More if you’re a frequent poster of audio/video.

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Big commercial services such as YouTube or TikTok fund this work with billions of investment, and try to turn a profit by showing you ads. If they're cheap or are showing only a few ads, they're probably not profitable yet, and are losing billions a year trying to corner the market (to raise prices or show more ads later, see Uber for instance, or Prime Video).

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Independent services like Mastodon and PeerTube try to provide similar services which are funded in a few ways:

- federation, which means splitting the hosting and maintenance costs between many organizations (so you don't need a billion dollar company, you can have many $10–500k services)
- donations
- for PeerTube: peer-to-peer streaming (make users share data directly to reduce bandwidth used by the instances; think carpooling instead of taxis)

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg Those funding and cost management methods have some consequences in the user experience. There isn't one billion-dollar entity that can hire an army of designers and developers and pay for huge datacenters full of servers. Most developers and designers are volunteers, or at best a handful of people funded by donations. The cost-splitting strategy means users have to manage choices like "choose an instance".

@ViolaB @stevegis_ssg you have to let the nerd in a little tiny bit

I googled 'what is the fediverse' seven years ago and now my bird table is run by a raspberry pi

@alisca @stevegis_ssg

Okay then I have seven years from now on. 😁