@sun @dushman @lucy @newt I haven't tried Pixelfed since the early days and it didn't work that well, but that was 4 years ago at least. I'm sure it's progressed.

My main question was always the same one I just asked. Why is he building a whole new thing when Mastodon/Pleroma already have a backend that transcodes and plays video just fine? He could've just made a new client. Seems crazy and inefficient.