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Your video of almost 1hr recorded from a livestream seemed to do well on Plebs with blossom servers. I very rarely see videos longer than an hour on YouTube unless they're a podcast, a recorded show episode, or some repeat nature scenes. What possible video would be 5GB unless it's raw and uncompressed?

mar 5mo ago

I downloaded your code and asked chatgpt to make me a work around so I can upload files bigger then 100MB but not wasn't possible because it said it was the blossom servers that are the limitation.

So instead it wrote me a script to trick plebs into detecting my kind 1 note so it would show up on plebs.

The script just added the URL of my already uploaded video on my server.

That's why I requested the ability of adding a URL instead of uploading a video. It worked.

But that was a work around. Your site didn't actually let me upload a 5GB video. So users still don't have anyway to upload big files through.

If you add a url which is possible because I was working on it from your downloaded code then users will be able to host add their big video files but that's only if they host their own videos files.

Most people don't want to host their own videos files because it's gets expensive and they don't have the time or will to learn severs.

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Luxas 5mo ago

Ah I see. The problem is that defeats the point of Plebs. The use of Blossom servers is by design because it uploads the video to multiple servers. Thereby, aiding in censorship-resistance. So, if the video is deleted from one blossom server, it will use the hash to fallback to another host for pulling the video. With your single self-hosted workaround, if your VPS provider is forced to remove the video, it has nothing to fallback to and is then no different than if you used YouTube.

mar 5mo ago

If a website administrator uploads a video that is copyrighted or violates policy for some other reason, the VPS provider will typically request that the video be removed. If the administrator deletes the video from their own server, but continues to embed it on their site from a different server, the VPS provider may still consider this a violation.

Most VPS providers see this as facilitating access to infringing content, which can be interpreted as enabling copyright infringement. As a result, they may suspend the account or terminate the service entirely.

Why? Because from a legal standpoint, the VPS provider could still face liability for hosting a site that links to or embeds infringing material, even if the content itself resides elsewhere.

If my VPS provider demands that I delete a video, I’ll comply, because I agreed to their terms of service, and ultimately, it's their infrastructure. Refusing to do so or trying to bypass the rule by embedding content hosted elsewhere is unlikely to work; they can and often will suspend access anyway.

In this sense, whether you're directly using Blossom servers or hosting your content independently while using Blossom servers, you're in the same situation.

Blossom severs must follow legal obligations and terms of service, just like any other hosting provider.

Wait until your website starts getting much bigger and known. You will quickly have the NSFW bots uploading questionable things and you will need to moderate them or you will get shutdown. If you are hosting plebs from your home. You will mostly likely get a an email from the domain company or even worsening a knock on your door from the authorities.

I'm not sure why or who came up with calling them censorship resistant but Blossom servers are not censorship-resistant.

Luxas 5mo ago

Also, fwiw this line is what can be changed to increase upload size limit `const maxSize = 100 * 1024 * 1024; // 100MB`

But, hosts like blossom.band will fail for anything larger than 100mb. Not sure about the others.

mar 5mo ago

I'm sure in the future we will see limits increase mostly likely by paid media serves. Your Nostr media company already offers 2.1TB of storage.

Then that will start to take users away from YouTube but at the moment most people are not willing to pay because YouTube is where you still get the most exposure.