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3 weeks ago • •

Some news from #HolosSocial development. The latest release moves media processing to the device. Videos are transcoded locally before upload. Users can store media on their own S3 or WebDAV server, and the resulting URLs are used directly in #ActivityPub activities. The relay server handles neither transcoding nor media storage. Each user brings their own resources to the #Fediverse.

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#Holos 1.0.0-rc-4 published! Sync is now much faster thanks to Bloom filters. You can set a TTL on posts when composing or configure a default in settings.

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Klaus Frank

in reply to Fedilab Apps • 3 weeks ago • •

So basically just like "Enhanced Broadcasting " on services like twitch.

You kinda make it sound like this was a drawback of using "non big us cloud" services...

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@agowa338
Holos runs an ActivityPub server on your phone. Transcoding locally is not a workaround, it follows the same logic: your device is the server. The cloud storage part (S3/WebDAV) is there so your media stays reachable when your phone is offline. The goal is to give regular users full ownership of their data while staying part of the Fediverse.

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Klaus Frank

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I get that part. But somehow the wording you used in your initial post made it sound like the local transcoding was something undesirable and unusual...

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@lexinova
A desktop app is planned, but a web interface is not something we will build. The core principle of Holos is that your data stays on your device, not on a remote server serving web pages.

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