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What if every phone could contribute to the #Fediverse, not just consume it?
Short-form video means heavy server-side transcoding for every clip. But your phone can handle it. Re-encode, resize, thumbnails, all done locally. Then push to your own #S3 or #Nextcloud.
No transcoding server. Just simple storage.
We can decentralize the compute, not just the network.
We're working on it
@HolosSocial oooh please tell me you're doing it in hardware like that new video recompressor app on Fdroid
@deutrino
Yes! The RC-4 already uses hardware encoding on the device for video compression.
@HolosSocial alright Richard Hendricks, I see where you're going with this and I like it!
@vapourisation
Busted! But we promise a better ending this time.
@HolosSocial I need to study the Activity Pub protocol to have a thought about your idea.
@codeDude
Nothing in ActivityPub prevents it. The media URLs in activities can point anywhere, including an S3 bucket or a WebDAV server.
It will probably appeal first to users who are already comfortable setting up their own cloud storage, but we will help those who are not.
