http://video.beyondbitcoin.io

EDIT: I talked about money here. That's not the problem really. I also don't know why I can't get access to the steem developers in the slack chat. I'm just trying to get webtorrent embeds to work like youtube embeds, so our platform can, like, you know, reach a billion dollars in market cap?

I know, it must really be hurting the whale's balls right now that we're not >1b already. Or is it hurting people's balls that I'm trying to build great new things on this platform?

...and given the resistance to this (not to mention the numerous API-related issues effecting downstream projects) can Steemit really be called a platform at all?

Only time will tell.

This, and all of my steem-related work has been made possible by @officialfuzzy.

And I'm not fucking around, either. I mean all of it, every last bit of it. And while I'm not insanely expensive, because I really do like this work and indeed the steem community, I'm certainly not cheap either. Now that I've been invited to the slack, I intend to work with the devs to fix the downstream DX-- or vacate the premises. People, pay attention to this video clip, which should embed like youtube, but doesn't:

http://video.beyondbitcoin.io/videos/watch/584c904e9471da00567ae7dd

see the hash? all we need to do is get the front end to detect magnet links like it does youtube links. Here's an example of what a magnet link looks like:

magnet:584c904e9471da00567ae7dd

Here's a screenshot of the code needed to play a magnet in javascript:

The js that enables magnets supports these filetypes:

• Oh, wait, did that mean that we've got a soundcloud equivalent, too....?
• PDF hosting?
• Hosting of images?

Yeah.

Here's my first-ever post:
https://steemit.com/content/@faddat/wow-this-platform-here-are-my-thoughts-on-keeping-it-awesome

Here's a quotation from the relevant section:

Keep the Content Under Your Roof, Don't Outsource Hosting: Content is Steem's value

I'm so excited about SteemIt because of the way that it keeps users connected to their content. Currently, users need to upload content (videos, audio, etc) to external platforms for it to be usable on Steemit. Long-term this will dilute the value of the platform overall and causes conflicts of interest. In keeping with the user-driven nature of the site, it would be interesting to try out the concept of a global, user-run CDN for Steemit.
I'd be pleased as punch to collaborate with the community or company behind Steemit to make this happen. It's not as hard as it sounds, though it's also far from easy....
Of my recommendations, this one is the most serious. I think that steemit derives value from content, and therefore needs to get content back under its own roof, post-haste.
In the Slack channel, I saw some mention of using IPFS to do this, and I'd like to recommend against it. IPFS simply isn't as good a solution as webtorrent or maidsafe or another distributed, peer to peer solution .

The corollary to the above is: FIX IMAGES!

Indeed, we here on steemit are good-- quite good. That said, we must get quite better. I want to help. If in the end I cannot help, I will politely show myself the door.