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RE: The growing case to move onto the Steem network
My easily getting annoyed by control freak behaviour is one of the reasons I want stuff like this to succeed, and I don't even have these Youtube problems :) (too small to begin with and also didn't like how they operated so I went through a little bit of just using them as video hosting and then finally bailed when I foumd bitchute and then dtube happened)
I am authority adverse myself ;)
What needs to happen is the ability to store videos longterm in a decentralized manner.
The way dtube is doing it is fine. The problem is purely most people expecting it to work like YouTube. Being decentralised means all of us need to be willing to spin up a server instance or donate some hard drive space (I think there’s some crypto projects centred around those ideas too) to pin our own and other people’s videos. More people pinning makes it faster and less likely to disappear 😄
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I guess it would work like a torrent system?
Kind of.
Now that you mention it I think if it’s possible for ipfs and webtorrent to work side by side dtube could implement webtorrent as well as while it’s probably not quite as sophisticated as ipfs it’s a lot easier for a non-techy user to set up. When I was playing around with bitchute I downloaded a webtorrent client for my os and grabbed the magnet link for my test video, bang done. Also viewers can temporarily seed while on the page, though some people have tantrums about stuff like that (which I think is fair enough if they’re actually not informed).
Ipfs was slightly more involved 😆
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