RE: the BEST of the Best from my first year on Steemit! (part 1 of 2)
Hey Drutter,
I like the year-in-review megaposts. I'm sad that some of your videos are no longer available...
I think you can permanently keep your videos available on DTube. If I'm not mistaken DTube stores videos via IPFS. The addresses of your videos (hashes) are permanent, it's just that the actual video data naturally expires from all the IPFS node caches after a certain amount of time (a week or two?) when nobody actively watches your videos within that timeframe--unless your video is "pinned." Pinning content is sort of like "seeding" content with BitTorrent. To pin your videos you can run your own IPFS node (ideally) or get someone else who does run a node to pin your videos. There are people and organizations running free services to pin content, such as Protocol Labs. I know there are bots on Twitter and Discord where you can just send them a hash and they will pin your video for you.
See: https://steemit.com/izlude/@izlude/preventing-your-dtube-vids-from-disappearing-aka-hosting-a-node
Another thing to consider, and I hope this is okay to post on Steemit, is uploading your videos to bit.tube as a backup. BitTube also uses IPFS to store video, and the BitTube project pins every video uploaded indefinitely, for free (at least for now).
Hey fam, thanks for the comment and info.
Most of the above seems like patches but not fixes. Workarounds. I hope before long there's a true solution. It's hard to believe videos and blockchains aren't compatible. There has to be a way. I know these things are all still in beta, and it's a new world, and I'm not tech savvy, but I still get the feeling it could be going faster than it is. After all, it's 2018, we're living in the future! Let's get with the 90s, and have permanent uncensored video capability for the masses.
I tried Bittube and couldn't make it work for me. So many issues. I may try again.