Difficult to say right now. While it’s bragged that AI can already “create” games and “webpages”. Current approaches rely heavily on human prompting and trial and error. Plus said dev AIs work best when creating common, simple, short projects. The AI will just auto complete stuff, and if its wrong, well it can’t tell the difference. Actual programs created by humans are multitudes of machines working together in perfect sync. It involves progressive iteration and refactor, as well as requiring many types of languages, data, images, sound, API use, organization, planning, and references (often from closed source programs) if it has any hopes of working.

Something as ambitious as an OS? Given the size of the task, you might as well wait for the singularity when all bets are off.

Solid response.

What the heck does that have to do with watching viral videos on cell phones? We’re talking about a competitor to TikTok. With respect, Linux is like 3% of the desktop market, anything happening on Linux endpoints is noise to the big players.

The bitTorrent protocol is infamous for piracy, in fact you’ll hardly find a common man who doesn’t equate the two together (hearing torrents = pirated media) Even with the full copyright cartel doing their damnest, it’s still available world wide. Also, video streaming on mobile data is everywhere and ISPs responded by fattening up their networks with newer, better, faster tech, like 4g/5g.

Your concerns are reasonable, though there is no precedent. Might be, might not be. Hard to say when one lacks the rulebook.

Torrents have been around for over 20 years and most of the time infamous for its abundance of “linux distros”. Citation needed.

Peertube as you said is the closest equivalent as a video distributor. Technically a similar approach to Peertube would work by using both Torrents and Instance data storage. Now what makes Tik Tok so popular is its algorithm, which mind you, is a tiny wee bit manipulative. In future, Peer Tube might implement something like dedicated sections for vertical videos. But without a significant cultural shift, I’m not seeing an effective Tik Tok clone appear without a lot of noses being turned up.

Without any ratings for customer satisfaction. I might as well sack the entire support staff, don’t bother with AI and I’ll get a answered query to F off in 0 minutes and 100% savings.

I personally find it mildly amusing that picture 1 includes a post of Lemmyverse’s largest Instance announcing it was hacked. (I know it’s true and it’s a good thing that the announcement happened. But still…)

Anyways, with that out of the way. It could be an interesting browser flow, hope people like it!

Oh this is is quite interesting. Quite interesting indeed! I approve of this. Seems like it may be exactly what I was looking for.

Much appreciated!