> And yet there are still swaths of HN commenters claiming that people would surely support paid, ad-free alternatives to YT, if only they existed.
Nobody will and whoever claims that is either 1) mad wealthy or 2) out of touch. Or both.
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Nobody will and whoever claims that is either 1) mad wealthy or 2) out of touch. Or both.
They also had the option of creating an ActivityPub compatible API, no? But yes I guess it's easier this way.
Having said that I wonder if they'll allow federation to happen. Most Mastodon instances restrict and censor speech so they will probably add Gab to the blocklist immediately but it would be cool if they could federate with other free speech instances. But then, what would be the point of using Gab instead of just other Mastodon instance?