Nostr Web Client

If they haven’t posted the video through Plebs, the videos they have published won’t show in the feed. This design choice was done for multiple reasons. The first being to ensure censorship-resistance through the uploading to Blossom hosts. The second for anti-spam mitigation. And third for how it tracks impressions and engagement in order to load the trending section and queued videos in “Up Next”. Think of Plebs as an outbox model. Otherwise, if we ingest all videos across Nostr, the app can’t guarantee if a video can be found online and might also pull in absolute slop.

Globe99 1w ago 💬 1

Yeah... don't think I agree with the design decision. I think this should just be a "YouTube"-like client for videos that get posted to Nostr. That's what I would personally find valuable.

Nostr users should understand how to filter based on their follows, WoT, by relays, etc.

Censorability, the use of blossom, etc the onus should be on the user posting the video to worry about that. Of course Plebs can make it easy for users to use blossom, but that shouldn't be a requirement to be on the site...

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Luxas 1w ago

That’s ok. I didn’t build it to please everyone, I built it to be the most censorship-resistant and with higher quality, intentionally uploaded videos. Most people are absolutely unaware of how to manage things on their own. Most of us are outliers. Without the way Plebs was architected, there wouldn’t be any stop to someone flooding the feeds with junk. And even then, those protective measures are thin. If there’s any chance of a decentralized YouTube being used by normies, this was the best possible way for it to be built, imho.