ISPs really tried to make plans specially that were covered in whole by these credits, because it meant they could get customers who otherwise they wouldn’t have at all, and of course for the ISPs that gave a shit, it was also just a good thing to do.

It solves a pretty hard problem that is a self-hosted video platform; a lot of places use YouTube to host videos, even if they aren’t doing so to make money through adsense, this is for their own site material, posting to groupchats, and similar purposes.

Issue is that otherwise you rely on platform owners like Google, who can decide to unperson you, your business, or an employee. It effectively happened to me, YT terminated my channel for unsubstantiated reasons, and hosting my own peertube is likely in the future to replace where I host my decades of video content.

Further, ideologically, we should be collectively moving away from “platforms” for what should be obvious reasons to those of us on the fediverse.

I gotta admit this got a chuckle out of me, I’d allow it.

This is pretty much on the money.

It even happened to me recently, Google nuked my (almost two decade old) YT channel for alleged “adult content” (Guess the AI hallucinated some crazy shit, since alls was on there was videogame footage) and of course, zero possibility of speaking to a human or any clue as to what’s going on, just a goodbye and thanks for all the adrev.

Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.

Standards as in parts of the spec, as you said in the original reply:

the new MatrixRTC spec

Which is a fork of the WebRTC protocol and another “standard” on top of the REST HTTP protocol.

I should have been more specific with my language, it is federated, but specifically messages (events) are a distributed DAG, and I find the Matrix protocol overly generic for a replacement for something specific like Discord.

The end goal of Matrix is to be a ubiquitous messaging layer for synchronising arbitrary data between sets of people, devices and services

Matrix has moved very very slowly and I’m concerned it’ll have the same fate as XMPP, where it’s a bunch of very complicated standards, with maybe one compliant implementation that nobody wants to work on.

I also don’t think it’s a particularly good protocol design for a Discord replacement, it’s not federated it’s a distributed message protocol, which is an order of magnitude more complicated and intensive than potential alternatives.

That said, many non-perfect things have achieved widespread success, so I’m at least hopeful that Matrix/Element are able to catch on in a wider capacity.

As someone who runs a Mumble server (and has for over a decade) – it’s really not a replacement for the user experience that is Discord.

People want a unified UI, the ability to create communities with some amount of customization, embedded/live content, plus voice and video so they can chill and play games together. Mumble is just voice, and while it’s a very good implementation of that, it’s not even in the same user space as Discord.

I think it’s “the algorithm”, people basically just want to be force-fed “content” – look how successful TikTok is, largely because it has an algorithm that very quickly narrows down user habits and provides endless distraction.

Mastodon and fediverse alternatives by comparison have very simple feeds and ways to surface content, it simply doesn’t “hook” people the same way, and that’s competition.

On one hand we should probably be doing away with “the algorithm” for reasons not enumerated here for brevity, but on the other hand maybe the fediverse should build something to accommodate this demand, otherwise the non-fedi sites will.

I still see lots of different emails out there, outlook/hotmail is still huge, yahoo occasionally, icloud in the US.

Among my techy friend circle all of us have either our own self hosted mail, a ‘privacy’ company email, or something in the middle.

All to say, I don’t think it’s that uphill of a battle for the very large percentage of Internet users to accept the way federation works.