Only the creators that can bring a community with them.
Not the view-chasing ad-revenue folks.
Discussion
I’m here to avoid video-based social media platforms. They are all platforms. There’s no decentralized way to manage all the bandwidth and storage needs. That’s why they have so much control over what people can post there.
No, we can build a decentralized video platform, over torrent
Someone should do this then.
That's what LBRY used to be, but they sucked from day 1. I'm sure someone is already working on it, seems like such an obvious thing
Wouldn’t it still be pretty slow and unreliable? I have to wonder why it hasn’t been done yet after Nostr has existed for several years.
It wouldn't be. Torrents can be faster than centralized platforms, whole serving better quality. I watch torrents while they're downloading all the time, never feel slowdowns, and usually they're done downloading before I'm even 1/3rd of the way through watching the content
Would torrents be seeded in relays? Content stored on blossom servers? I’m fuzzy on the technical details.
Franzap and Kieran have both demoed splitting up files over different blossom servers.
Don't really know what the next hurdle is.
DTAN-Relay running on a seedbox, yes
Don’t know what that means. Sounds cool, let’s see it actually working.
https://github.com/v0l/dtan-server
It's a nostr relay for torrents
If you go three years back you will find a note from my npub that says the exact thing.
But that was before blossom.
I think blossom + torrent has a chance.
the nostr client i've been assigned to build, i was going to have media previews but it has global feeds on free relays and some of the shit. ugh. rude people posting porn without NSFW tags on them. so, it's better to force the user to contextualize the media links so they can decide whether or not to open them.
video is the most potent medium for propaganda. it should be treated suspiciously by users.