nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 This looks awesome! So is all the content hosted on AWS? How do you plan to monetize this so it’s sustainable?
Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! 🎉
Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree 🤗
Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like.
Check it out at https://www.flare.pub/ 🔥
Discussion
The content can be hosted anywhere. When you upload through the site, it's going to AWS (just because that's what I have set up) you could host it on your own server and just paste the url
I can paste the url without your service, what's the point?
Content discovery for nostr.
I love it ! Would it support 'Tor' onion addresses for storing content on a home hosted system ?
If users wanted to have more ownership of their content, would it make sense to set up our own S3 bucket? I’ve never done that before but if there were a plug-and-play way to do this it would reduce Flare’s overhead.
I’d also like to do the same for hosted images, essentially having the core functionality of an image host like nostr.build but one where I manage the storage.
And to make it even more useful, this would ideally have client-side integration for media uploads.
Isn't an S3 bucket still controlled/owned by Amazon, AWS? They could rug you if they want to.
Technically, but if you’re the customer it’s probably less likely than if someone else controlled all the file access. I don’t know if Amazon would care what you post unless they got a specific instruction from a law enforcement agency.
How does seeking work? It seems to work, but from what little I know about video content delivery, it seems like it shouldn't. I expected something like HLS but that doesn't *seem* to be going on.
Um… we do all consider AWS a centralized, censorship-prone platform?
I love the idea of it, but decentralized storage is key sticking point
There are 2 elements of a YouTube style client.
The organization of metadata (listings)
Actual storage
YouTube does both because it’s centralized and I don’t know if it loss leaders it’s service for other purposes or not. Haven’t checked how profitable it is.
The idea here that you can use kind 1063 and host a URL elsewhere works too.
I’m still building something that could be useful for decentralized storage though it’s far from ready for prime time.
Flare’s is probably a good start especially for bootstrapping a set up.
🤷♂️
Please ser, consider torrent-streaming
what is odd about Torrents is nobody is required to actually keep the files available on their computers after downloading them and somehow Torrents still work
when i download a file i remove it from the torrents list and close the Torrent client for example.
my PC is on 24/7 and there is a solid terabyte of data on it that originally came from Torrents yet i am only making available a few GB of that data for maybe half an hour per month on average ... and Torrents STILL WORK
what if you were required to keep at least 100GB of active torrents available at least 8 hours a day on average ? the answer is downloads would max out your bandwidth 10 times out of 10, even with the average user having asymmetrical bandwidth like 300 down / 20 up.
It would make sense to keep the discovery/social aspect separate from the media storage and allow for multiple sources for the same video in case some go down. And possibly you could upload to many places at once.
(repeating myself here, it would be nice to have)
(A) Torrent (like) protocol where you pay for download/stream and get paid in bitcoin for actively hosting it. Where people could sponsor the streaming of a video (or a part of it) if they wanted more eyes on their content.
This.
When you want pay for hosting it also good idea to to encrypt it, so nobody can watch it in case he don't have original note with encryption key.
We need plasible deniability for seeders.
But i think apple have problem with torrents and sinilar thinks on ios.
Yes there are a lot of "details" to consider, making it as private as possible is one of them. Good point.
Apple... where we are going there are no appstores to stop us. (On long enough time horizon).
Had the same question.