It is still not obvious to me how you can guarantee the video will be up 1 year from now.
And if I would have to pay to incentivise seeders to keep my video up, or I would have to seed it, its unrealistic to think people will use that.
The reason YouTube pickedup is because you post and forget, and most people are ok with the trade-off.
The content creator will always be seeding no?
With the paid seed incentive I'm also fairly sure some kind services will host.
I cant even guarantee I will even host my videos, let alone others.
its equivalent to if everyone would give a dollar. . . .
And if you say rent a VPS, we are back to youtube model.
My point is that I don't think normal people will pay for this, when youtube offers it for free.
Unless they post constantly banned content, youtube will work for most.
The problem IMO is that the incentive to store videos is not the same as storring the blockchain, even more it scales 10^N worst than the blockchain storage.
The problem is not the tech, is the conext, I think.
Nvm the fact that, if i do this as a youtuber than I will have lets ay 100 even more videos per year, and now I have to host all of them.
Bottom line is storage scales exponentially.
I'm with you, a better alternative approach prob exists, but I suppose it's like trusting a bank, email server etc, etc
Having other choices in the market is useful, especially if the content creator gets more of the value of their work.
I really want a solution for this, and I woud use it, even if not ideal just see what's what.
For the "real" solution we just need another Satoshi moment, so it should not be hard 🙃
You can just re-stream to an unlisted channel on YT for free VOD storage. If your other host goes down you can recover the media from YT and upload it elsewhere. It's what I do with zapstream.
So your solution for a decentralised and censorship-rezistance competitor to YouTube, is to use YouTube.
I really don't see how this is a solution to anything discussed in the thread..
So your solution for a decentralised and censorship-rezistance competitor to YouTube, is to use YouTube.
I really don't see how this is a solution to anything discussed in the thread.
I didn't say that. I have enough storage. But creators saying that they aren't publishing their content natively to nostr because of costs associated with the media hosting is pretty ridiculous.
Publishign is not the problem anyone can broadcast a note.
The problem is storing it where no one can take it down.
And cost is a problem if you want to scale something to 100s milions of users.
You just have a hacky workardound that works because you are not scaling it.
A 250$ mini PC should do the trick.
Storage is the relatively cheap part of video hosting. A single 20MB (tiny) video with 10M views is 200TB of traffic. Multiplied by hundreds of thousands of videos, that becomes a massive amount. Nostr is tiny, so it is easy now, but to scale will require something new.
I really dont get why people here on nostr do not want to admint we dont have good solutions for almost nothing, just workarounds.
The only way we will find solutions is if we admit there is a problem.
