I love the idea of friendica but until my mother can upload a video and view it on a feed it's just not going to work. I've tried it out many times over the years and I just can't recommend it as a Facebook replacement for nontechnical users, not even just for sharing with family.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

My fantasy is Apple heating up a feud with Facebook and integrating some kind of “self hosting” into the iPhone. EG our Moms “upload” the video, but what really happens under the hood is the phone streams the video on demand to her family. IIRC there are similar swarming schemes out there already.

It sounds crazy, and it used to be, but smartphones/modems are so fast now they could host little web servers on their efficiency cores, without breaking a sweat.

…Otherwise, this is a difficult issue, as video is so expensive to centrally host.

[–] MudMan@fedia.io 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hosting maybe, but there is no way you're serving any content from a phone on a mobile network from a mobile device. That's just a nonstarter.

Also, why is Apple any better than Facebook in this scenario?

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yes, I had this idea too and looked into it briefly. I.P. addresses on phones are like your home network where multiple devices are behind one address and being nat-ted I believe.

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