DTube My Initial Impressions & What the Heck is it?
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Hey guys, so a couple of you had mentioned DTube to me and said to check it out so I finally got around to it. DTube is a "sorta kinda not really" decentralized video site similar to Youtube.
That's actually one minor criticism I heard which was first off "normies" I guess non tech people don't really care about decentralized, and secondly it's not really feasible to do. Both the creator himself as well as another Youtuber @castledoes and @thecastle on Steemit say that a blockchain isn't really meant to host big video files.
Overall I think it's a really cool site and a really cool concept but the one part I kind of have a hard time wrapping my head around, and maybe you guys can educate me, is why would I use DTube as opposed to just posting directly on Steemit itself?
That was something I wrestled with when I first tried Steepshot and eventually quit using it because I just didn't see a point and it would goof up my tags and make me go back to Steemit to put in my tags so I figured if I have to use 2 sites to make Steepshot work why not just skip it and use Steemit.
I do like DTube much better than Steepshop, I dig that it's a bit less prone to have a central authority make rules but at the end of the day that may be a necessity as currently it looks like there's some Game of Thrones full episodes posted on there. What happens if HBO tries to go after the creator? Can the content be taken down. Even worse what if someone posted something worse?
Overall I think it's a well built interface and kind of a cool site. It's very young so could really grow and add features. I do think at some point there will be a need for some type of censorship if for nothing else than you can't post movies and television shows. Really at the end of the day the content should be unique anyways.
I'm gonna give it a try for another couple weeks and form a more well rounded opinion of it. Also if you guys can clue me in to the value it adds to Steemit. Trying to wrap my head around how to use it.
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Hey there!! just found your video on youtube and came straight here to follow you on steemit!! I'm just starting out on steemit and really struggling to get any significant upvotes :(
My videos won't even play on the platform, I think its cool. But brand new and needs to work out the bugs.
I don't agree with @thecastle on some of the stuff he was saying in the video
If you don't mind my asking what parts of what he said do you disagree with?
Also maybe you can break this down for me. I think it's a cool idea a Youtube alternative, I think even just a few days in it's already better than vidme both in terms of the UI as well as the monetization plan ie letting people support you and/or pay you with an upvote on Dtube as opposed to vidme where someone has to pull out a credit card and give you money out of their pocket.
That said I'm trying to wrap my head around how it benefits me to post there as opposed to just Steemit? As a viewer there is one advantage I see. Say I want to consume Steemit content but I'm looking for video and don't want to read and don't want pictures or photochallenges or whatever. By going to DTube, I'm only getting video content so I see the benefit there. As a creator however what is the draw for me to use it as opposed to uplaoding my video to Youtube and posting on Steemit?
Right now there is no real advantage of uploading there instead of uploading to YouTube and just embedding it.
Let's say it progressed and the features on the site got super good and was far superior to Steemit then it would maybe make sense to just be interfacing with the STEEM blockchain from there. Honesty if a group decided to take that concept and start their own clone of STEEM that started with a more fair distribution I think it could gain decent traction.