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RE: How do you like DLive now?
Invalid argument. Hosting and keeping your videos loading is easy, you just need to run IPFS. The hash of your video will never change, if you still have the source files, getting them back online is pretty easy.
You are greedy, and now looking for excuses for your behavior, and trying to convince yourself that you are in the good and did nothing wrong, because you expect a decentralized website to host petabytes of videos for free forever.
I have no idea about all that. I just noticed, that some of my videos aren't running anymore. In DLive it worked better. I am a user, not a developper.
Nonsense. You are unfair. :)
I know better than you why I switched to DLive, do I? Yes, I do!
I need not to look for excuses - why should I need to justify anything?
I wrote that comment, because I like DTube and wanted to let you know what the problem is. That's all. I wouldn't have written anything in case I didn't care about DTube.
I don't have enough time for complicated thoughts like that. I just want to use something which is working well.
So in other words you say that it is impossible to still view uploaded DTube videos after quite some time has passed? Then, unfortunately, for me it makes more sense to save my video in sites like vimeo, even if I would prefer to use an app like DTube.
Well you need to take into consideration that we are trying to build a decentralized video platform. If we host all videos like vimeo does, how exactly does that make our platform decentralized?
While it is convenient to have vimeo or youtube host everything in a brainless mode for us, it isn't possible if we want the platform to be truly free...
I understand that decentralization doesn't have any direct marketing advantage. That's why DLive acted the way they did, and centralized everything, while keeping the decentralized part in their marketing scheme. It's easier and it looks even closer to a real video platform experience, because actually nothing was changed from it.
OK, thanks for your reply! But what do you suggest if I like not to lose my videos in the long run?
Shall I upload them to DTube again, anyway, or must I save them at another place, as well? Do I I still need an additional centralized place?
I am not especially talented in making videos, but nevertheless some of them mean much to me as precious memories ... and I like to observe nature and secure these moments.
Concerning videos not running I read in one of your other comments that this problem has been solved (or at least improved a lot) since quite a while, right?
Also here I may not be up to date because I am not uploading videos so frequently.
A video file is just a video file. I don't know how big file wise video files are. But google does allow for file storage. I don't think they care what kind of file, they just have a limit on the amount of file space they give for free. So you get a google account, your wife gets a google account, then you have two places to store files. Google doesn't, to the best of my knowledge, delete files. Heck I have e-mails going back to the beginning of google.
If you run out of storage on google, you can always change your phone number and get another google account.
I think amazon also offers file storage, and a few other places they of course charge, but if it is just your files, it may be a reasonable fee.
Thanks for your reply!
I don't have a huge amount of video files anyway ... I just thought, maybe I could use a decentralized solution to save my videos, but it seems I have to choose a more conventional method as you suggested.