Um… we do all consider AWS a centralized, censorship-prone platform?
I love the idea of it, but decentralized storage is key sticking point
nostr:npub1zach44xjpc4yyhx6pgse2cj2pf98838kja03dv2e8ly8lfr094vqvm5dy5 This looks awesome! So is all the content hosted on AWS? How do you plan to monetize this so it’s sustainable?
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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.
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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).