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RE: Forget LBRY, I'm Putting My Video Library on DTube
If you would forgive me for saying so please:
"LBRY is better for different things. But overall, I like DTube better.
I don't like that the videos are automatically posted to Steemit. I have a feeling that the designer did that to bring more attention to the video platform. Hopefully one day that feature becomes optional.
I still haven't looked at view.ly."
I'm sorry, I just have to say, you have opened a huge bag of issues here, none of which your post here really considers...
Please talk to use about view.ly.
Please consider what it means, all videos uploaded to dTube are posted to steemit automatically, is that correct?
And why exactly, do you like LBRY less? (and what is it better for?)
Is that a huge bag of issues? It looks like one issue to me.
I don't dislike LBRY, but I'm not fond of paywalls.
What paywall exists on Lbry? I'm confused by this statement.
There aren't paywalls for use of the platform, but if you want to make money off your content other than the small user rewards, you have to set up your videos as pay-to-watch. That's a paywall.
I'd rather not restrict my content to those willing to pay to watch a 2 minute video. That's a pretty small demographic.
Ah, I see - that's an interesting perspective. Thus far most of the content up on Lbrynet is free to watch; I actually feel this is not ideal as content providers should be receiving some payment. Also, I wasn't aware of any sort of 'user award' available in Lbry - perhaps I'm misunderstanding that.
You're right, most people aren't going to pay for 2min content, so I wouldn't expect those videos to be very popular. I'd expect to begin seeing more in-video advertisement, which is somewhat normal on YouTube already.
I'm also seeing major problems with using Steemit to host video content. How would it be possible for their blockchain to host all that content? Witness nodes will end up needing to be full datacenters to support that, reducing the decentralization (the fact is, Steemit.com is the defacto centralized source for content right now). Perhaps IPFS can solve this, but at that point, you're at technical parity with Lbry.
I'm totally for competition in the market, and optimistic the best technology will win - in the end it'll be better for consumers :)