The creator of pixelfed is working on a tiktok alternative loops, although for now it’s in private beta.

For a starting point that is available now, you could look at Pixeldroid, an open source pixelfed app.

Besides the ones already mentioned:

• The FSF has some channels at https://framatube.org/a/fsf

• There’s a bunch of KDE related channels at https://tube.kockatoo.org

• Blender has several channels at https://video.blender.org

• https://peertube.touhoppai.moe/a/shichimi has Krita tutorials from the creator of the Pepper and Carrot webcomic.

• https://tilvids.com/a/martin_owens from someone who works on Inkscape.

• https://tilvids.com/a/togglejam looks at the science behind fictional games and shows.

• https://diode.zone/c/andrewtropin has a bunch of scheme and guix related videos

• There’s some anarchist channels on https://kolektiva.media like CrimethInc and subMedia.

A couple of gaming related accounts/channels:

• https://subscribeto.me/a/gbryant

• https://peertube.linuxrocks.online/c/boilingsteam

With AI upscaling it fills it in based on the training from other images/videos. So it probably won’t be an alien, but small details common in other videos that looked similar will also show up in the upscaled videos. If an extra flower shows up in a field of grass it’s usually not a big deal, but for some things like faces or symbols, small details can really change the way people interpret it.

Depending on the context it’s probably not that bad, but there’s plenty of details in youtube videos that people pay attention to, like in news, history, tutorials, educational content, and so on. Even for a fictional story, it could add nonsense that people assume is part of the actual show.

The problem with AI upscaling is that it does add something. It fills in the details with things that could plausibly be there, regardless of if they are. It’s especially dangerous if it’s used for something like security footage, where it’ll do stuff like make up a face based on a few pixels.

There’s also sepiasearch.org for PeerTube videos.

There’s a list of people that have agreed to block it at https://fedipact.online/

I think they just have multiple test instances to test federation between them.

About 20k are probably from hexbear, which migrated from their own distant fork of lemmy to the current version, so now they show up in a lot of trackers. They still haven’t enabled federation yet though.

None of the options are that great right now. I still mostly use Jerboa, and go to the PWA for things that don’t work. Other android apps you can check out are thunder that has an alpha out, memmy which only has an iOS beta so far, but plans to be cross-platform, and lemmur which is outdated and is incompatible with current lemmy, although there’s a fork with more recent development so it could possibly come back at some point.

This sort of thing can be done, but it takes a lot of work to coordinate everyone. Try to keep it as small as it needs to be so it doesn’t spiral into an unfinishable procedurally generated VR MMORPG dwarf fortress / factorio pyanodon / no man’s sky hybrid with AI NPCs, puzzle platformer elements, and ActivityPub integration.

You can look at Thrive, which is an open source C# Godot game aiming to be a scientifically accurate Spore. It has a really huge scope and has been in development for more than a decade. But at least they are working on it mostly one stage at a time, so it starts as a relatively small but complete game and grows from there.

And if you don’t have a specific idea in mind, you might be better off contributing to existing open source Godot games. At the least look over existing projects so you’re not duplicating effort. You might find one that you can fork into something new.