I had a scary thought: what if youtube decided to join the fediverse?
I had a scary thought: what if youtube decided to join the fediverse?
When I saw MKBHD on threads available through flipboard, the thought crossed my mind. Wouldn't it be a game changer for the biggest websites to suddenly try to coax users and content creators with "one account to rule them all" solution?
I don't think they care at all about what we're doing here on the Fediverse. Lemmy has like 46k users, PeerTube has like 20k users. That's next to nothing to them and on Youtube a single content creator might have a way bigger audience than all of Lemmy, Peertube, etc. It wouldn't be worth 10 minutes of their time to come up with an embrace and extinguish concept unless that changes substantially and we get like 100x - 1000x that many users. Or there is something else to gain for them. But they're certainly not interested in the userbase here.
Might have a bigger audience? Hell, Mr Beast has 309 million subscribers.
The entire fediverse combined isn't even a rounding error anywhere google would even notice.
To elaborate: it's not about gaining the users from the fediverse: nobody give a shit about us. It's about taking away users from other big platforms.
Imagine if MKBHD realised he could do all his media relations from a single account. He could post a promotional picture (or video) on his youtube account and have it be visible on instagram, threads, twitter, tiktok, etc. . Comments from tiktok accounts would show up on the youtube video to youtube users on youtube.
Or a tiktok user uploading their short videos would have them show up on youtube shorts and insta (/threads) at the same time. Again, engagement from any platform would show up on one single account.
I don't think that's a possibility. All of those platforms make profit by displaying advertisements to people. Thet means they have to bind the users to their website or app. To display ads there. That's why they commonly restrict things and don't interconnect, but keep the users in a walled environment. I don't see any way for that to change with the current business model of all of the social media and big tech companies.
I also like the Fediverse. And I'd think it'd be awesome to have that. But I think it's a very unrealistic idea. Except for maybe if the EU forces them to open up or something like that.
if the fediverse succeeds, isnt it inevitable?
the whole 'one account' thing wont really exist though, as they would be blocked by a metric shit-tonne of instance owners who are either terrified or just plain butt-hurt that corporations might take part that those admins will block the big players.
this will leave users needing to find neutral instances in order to obtain 'one account to rule them all'
i find nothing to fear here.
Probably the same thing that happened when Threads decided to join the fediverse.
Sure, the reactionaries would sign something to not federate, but if threads and youtube start federating, you think things are going to stay the same?
So basically sign-in with Google?
Do you understand what the fediverse does? Do you need to login to lemmy.world in order to make a comment with your lemmy.ca account? Do you need to login to mastodon.social to see responses from mastodon.social users?