Comment by RobotToaster
3 hours ago
Content discovery on it is still difficult, mostly because of the bizarre decision to make federation whitelist based.
I'm also sceptical that activitypub is a good fit for video, IPFS could be a better solution.
It's a shame the US government killed LBRY.
> the bizarre decision to make federation whitelist based.
Given the multiple articles I've seen on how federation can easily accidentally DDOS mastodon servers, which isn't even a form of federation that primarily uses something as heavy in data usage as video, I do not find that so strange tbh. And that's before factoring in malicious actors or even just careless ones like all the AI scrapers.
I can see that's probably the logic behind it, but when your biggest USP is federation it still seems like a bad idea to deliberately hobble it.