I’d love a future where everything is decentralized and federated. But in the here and now, it’s just not pragmatically feasible for any independent non-commercial service to challenge the sheer amount of bandwidth and infrastructure a service like Twitch needs. Look at how many competitors have already tried to take on Twitch and failed miserably, and those were commercial startups with VC money.
Furthermore, even in the utopian future where ActivityPub streaming takes over, I still wouldn’t want all this history to be lost. Like this is such a devastating blow to speedrun.com leaderboards, for example, so many records will now be dead links.
I can’t relate. If it is/was important someone has archived it. These companies are an arm of the oligarchy, if losing these memories is the first step to their demise, then I’m all for it.
Individually, likely few, collectively, all of them. Make it available via torrent and seed your achievements for all to see. So many solutions that don’t involve the oligarchy directly.
I’d love a future where everything is decentralized and federated. But in the here and now, it’s just not pragmatically feasible for any independent non-commercial service to challenge the sheer amount of bandwidth and infrastructure a service like Twitch needs. Look at how many competitors have already tried to take on Twitch and failed miserably, and those were commercial startups with VC money.
Furthermore, even in the utopian future where ActivityPub streaming takes over, I still wouldn’t want all this history to be lost. Like this is such a devastating blow to speedrun.com leaderboards, for example, so many records will now be dead links.
I can’t relate. If it is/was important someone has archived it. These companies are an arm of the oligarchy, if losing these memories is the first step to their demise, then I’m all for it.
Who has the space to archive all of speedrun.com’s leaderboards?
Individually, likely few, collectively, all of them. Make it available via torrent and seed your achievements for all to see. So many solutions that don’t involve the oligarchy directly.
Even for a mass effort, there just isn’t enough time to grab everything for how suddenly this was announced.