Comment by LeoPanthera
1 year ago
There's something magical when one location becomes the default for something. A site like this would be impossible if YouTube wasn't the place for videos.
It's why I'm sad that we no longer have one obvious default for microblogging. It was such a rich source of thoughts. That's all gone now.
We don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...
Discovery sucks, though.
Just like in the Internet?
it's getting better
Mastodon is a walled garden
iiuc your argument, it would be more accurate to phrase it as: mastodon, lemmy, and other federated social protocols are like archipelagos of small islands.
Or, you were referring to bluesky.
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Can you elaborate?
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I don't see why a site like this couldn't search one or more of the top video sites if there was healthy competition.
And the former default is no longer developer friendly. (Or friendly to anyone else, really.)
Youtube certainly isn't developer friendly.. their APIs have very strict limits that often force people to go down the scraping route
I can't tell if this trail of talk is about Tumblr, Blogger, or something else - idnk, does anyone else remembers Astroatlas?
I’m pretty sure they’re referring to Twitter.
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Probably Twitter? Tumblr and Blogger were for regular blogging, not micro-blogging.
Oh you'll be back.