Galileo called doubt the father of invention; it is certainly the pioneer. - Christian Nestell Bovee

I agree, Christian.

A decentralized video hosting service that enabled video content creators to monetize their content without needing to face copyright wars or struggle through advertisement jungles, would be definitely a pioneer's work.

View.ly seems to be a solid project trying to fulfill this vlogger's dream.

Let's be a pioneer

We're currently in a situation where only a handful of corporations such as Google or Facebook control a considerable part of the flows on the internet, especially concerning our private data.

The private information is then used to provide users with the corresponding advertisement.

In today's world, content monetization and advertisement are inseparably connected. Actually there is no "real reward" given to a certain piece of content. The value is mainly generated through ads.

On YouTube besides the advertisement issue there is another serious problem content creators have to deal with.

YouTube users who appeal a complaint for a random (copyright) violation, can easily get trapped in a confusing automated system.

Then the provider - being a centralized - has the power to suddenly excecute a restriction of advertising, upload features or even freeze related income. A lot of very frustrated youtubers have recentely announced to leave the channel entirely if things don't change.

A couple of influencers have even joined steemit in the past months, mainly explaining their motivation with a desire for a more creator oriented content management.

The fact that many highly potential content providers on YouTube are unhappy with the copyright claim system essentially stealing ad revenue from legitimate videos, maybe THE chance for a decentralized system.

View.ly obviously manages to stay in step with the times!

I think the whole decentralized concept has considerably stretched our minds during the past years.

Life behaves in waves.

After decades of bundled power, decentralized information and intitutionalized control over information and data, it's time for a paradigm shift.

The market - WE - are demanding new solutions!

Creating demand is hard. Filling demand is easier. Don't create a product, then seek someone to sell it. Find a market, define your customers, then find or develop a product for them. - Timothy Ferriss

The market for a decentralized video product is there!

I'm glad we're in the middle of this great evolutionary progress.

So here we go: my very first upload to the video explorer Viewly Alpha: https://alpha.view.ly

Please also read @furion's Viewly Alpha Introduction post.

Since the blockchain is primarily computer processing intensive and video streaming is bandwidth and storage intensive, the capacity question might be one of the key challenges in that context.

Currently the size of videos that can be uploaded on view.ly is limited to 100MB. Considering that the average size of my surf videos in HD quality is around 200-400MB, I still won't be able to share all of my vlogs with you via view.ly.

However, I'm sure that @furion and his team will be pushing to find solutions for the encoding challenges as soon as possible.

For a reason there is this saying that "If you can dream it, you can do it".

Let's dream BIG and FAST though 😊

Hope you're enjoying your weekend, steemians!
Marly -

PS: The Viewly logo looks almost like the logo of my favorite surf brand "Roxy".

So to me the identity has almost been created 😄
Here's proving it with my Roxy bikini, haha!:

Photography taken and edited by myself (original content). Quote found on quotlr.com