Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover

• klymilark@herbicide.fallcounty.omg.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It would be, I forgot to mention an important piece: Cellular data is typically metered relatively strictly (most plans I’ve seen allow “unlimited”, but it’s usually slowed way down if you use more than 10-15gb in a month) where most home internet connections aren’t, and with something like TikTok the expected use is mobile. If we’re going with the like = seed option, that does imply the seeding is happening from the device that liked the video.

  With the Odysee model, I could set up my home PC (on an unmetered* connection) to have, say, 250gb set aside for videos to be shared from. It would be an intentional act that is unambiguously using up some bandwidth/data, and can’t be as easily misunderstood by the end user. Maybe find some way to incentivise it (preferably not crypto, but I do dislike this implementation of crypto less than most), but largely I think helping the community would be incentive for enough people to keep the network going, at least for a while.

  *They’re technically metered, but every internet plan I’ve seen limits you to terabytes of data up/down, not gigabytes

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  • sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Oh that makes sense, in this case it would need something like a toggle to only share data on WIFI, kinda like Google Photos and Immich do

    Maybe predownload videos on WIFI (Tiktok already has this function) and only use mobile data for comments and replies, and asking the user in case they are on mobile data if they want to download videos on demand.

    Anyways, I was thinking on ways to make it work. Thanks for the explanation.

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