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Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

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Post by freekh »

ndh2 wrote: post #48
reimertz wrote: post #43

Am I the only one who looked at the page for 2 seconds, clicked learned more and then went back here again? It's sad how "good looking" demo pages have turned me into a robot, ignoring everything that doesn't satisfy my preferences and therefore result in me missing out of a huge amount of valuable information.

Most of these "good looking" pages suck at getting their point across. I really have no idea what they're trying to optimize for. Curiosity maybe? Retention? These pages are trying to be advertisements when they should provide actual information. ∙ What is it (in one sentence)? ∙ What can I do with it? ∙ Where can I learn more about what you just described using meaningless buzzwords? Edit: This page has more informa…

Is it possible that they try to optimize for discussions on forums just like this one? :P

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#52

Post by kauffj »

pgl wrote: post #35

Would love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently linked to) doesn't seem to have a "What is LBRY?" anywhere. After a few minutes on this site, I still have no idea what this is. "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the co…

It is tough to strike a balance between a good introduction for technical people and non-technical people.

https://lbry.io/quickstart is good practical introduction.

https://lbry.io/what is a more theoretical introduction.

We've got a WIP new homepage (more of a wireframe) at https://lbry.io/home2 if you want to share any feedback!

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#53

Post by haldean »

kauffj wrote: post #28
StavrosK wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with your general sentiment, but their response does sound a bit weird. It would have been fine with me if they had said "oh it's just by chance, plus most of us knew eachother from before we started". Saying "we have no female roles" and "oh we get paid less so we're all women" (wtf?) isn't handling the situation well.

It was a crass and tone-deaf attempt on our part to signal awareness. Lesson learned. Subsequent attempts to engage sincerely were also met with derision, so I'm not sure anything could have ever been done that wouldn't have been met similarly.

Your attempt to respond sincerely was to say you don't have any women on staff because you don't have any executive assistants or office managers, which even a generous reader would call a sexist reason:

https://mobile.twitter.com/LBRYio/status/844194654656626688

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#54

Post by abraves10001 »

ndh2 wrote: post #48
reimertz wrote: post #43

Am I the only one who looked at the page for 2 seconds, clicked learned more and then went back here again? It's sad how "good looking" demo pages have turned me into a robot, ignoring everything that doesn't satisfy my preferences and therefore result in me missing out of a huge amount of valuable information.

Most of these "good looking" pages suck at getting their point across. I really have no idea what they're trying to optimize for. Curiosity maybe? Retention? These pages are trying to be advertisements when they should provide actual information. ∙ What is it (in one sentence)? ∙ What can I do with it? ∙ Where can I learn more about what you just described using meaningless buzzwords? Edit: This page has more informa…

Their essay has a tl;dr at the bottom, I didn't bother reading the actual essay. It was way too long, when all I wanted was the answers to the three questions you posed.

>TL;DR Digital art is one of the first goods to evolve beyond scarcity. This evolution is changing the way content is discovered, publicized, paid for and delivered. Heretofore, the lack of transparency and monetization mechanisms in peer-to-peer sharing networks has largely enabled piracy. By equipping a peer-to-peer protocol with a digital currency and transparent decentralized ledger, the LBRY protocol opens the door to a new era of digital content distribution making peer-to-peer content distribution suitable for major publishing houses, self-publishers and everyone in between.

If LBRY succeeds, we will enter a world that is even more creative, connected, and conservatory. We will waste less and we make more. We will create a world where a teenager in Kenya and a reality star in Los Angeles use the same tool to search the same network and have access to the same results -- a world where information, knowledge, and imagination know no borders.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#56

Post by Freak_NL »

ndh2 wrote: post #48
reimertz wrote: post #43

Am I the only one who looked at the page for 2 seconds, clicked learned more and then went back here again? It's sad how "good looking" demo pages have turned me into a robot, ignoring everything that doesn't satisfy my preferences and therefore result in me missing out of a huge amount of valuable information.

Most of these "good looking" pages suck at getting their point across. I really have no idea what they're trying to optimize for. Curiosity maybe? Retention? These pages are trying to be advertisements when they should provide actual information. ∙ What is it (in one sentence)? ∙ What can I do with it? ∙ Where can I learn more about what you just described using meaningless buzzwords? Edit: This page has more informa…

The absence of a succinct summary makes me suspect that hiding what it actually does is the intent of the author(s). That's not too strange an assumption in this age of vaporware, or is it?

The essay and FAQ do offer some explanation, but seem to gloss over other things. Does this require a DRM layer? Can I keep (and backup) any content I purchase?

How can I, as a layman, discern the nature of their cryptocurrency setup? In the FAQ LBRY.Inc is shown to allocate themselves 10% of the total amount of their digital currency, and another 20% is distributed by them to partners. In other places they are boasting that this is an open protocol, similar in impact to IMAP — and free from the clutches of evil content platforms like YouTube.

How do I know this isn't another pyramid scheme (the LBC cryptocurrency) or a mule with a carrot on its forehead pretending to be a unicorn looking for a buy-out?

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#57

Post by kauffj »

tyingq wrote: post #44
kauffj wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That FAQ article is old and I'm going to update it to point at https://lbry.io/faq/naming . You can get names as short as: lbry://name#a Where #a can actually be that short. If you want a name with no identifiers or filters at all, the voting system will continue to be used.

What are valid characters for an identifier? Can I have lbry://foo## for example?

It matches by claim id, which is a much longer hash, but the system will do partial matches. In the case of conflicting partial matches, the first claim (temporally) is resolved.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#58

Post by donohoe »

kauffj wrote: post #52
pgl wrote: post #35

Would love a quick explanation of what this is, especially after clicking through to "Learn More"[0]. I don't want to watch a video, I don't want to read an essay, even the FAQ[1] (which wasn't exactly prominently linked to) doesn't seem to have a "What is LBRY?" anywhere. After a few minutes on this site, I still have no idea what this is. "Watch, read and play in a decentralized digital library controlled by the co…

It is tough to strike a balance between a good introduction for technical people and non-technical people. https://lbry.io/quickstart is good practical introduction. https://lbry.io/what is a more theoretical introduction. We've got a WIP new homepage (more of a wireframe) at https://lbry.io/home2 if you want to share any feedback!

Yeah, still no ideas what it is you do. I'm learning more from HN comments then the site.

A plain english explanation (one to two paragraphs?) would be a huge help.

Re: Lbry.io – decentralized digital library

#59

Post by visarga »

abraves10001 wrote: post #54
ndh2 wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Most of these "good looking" pages suck at getting their point across. I really have no idea what they're trying to optimize for. Curiosity maybe? Retention? These pages are trying to be advertisements when they should provide actual information. ∙ What is it (in one sentence)? ∙ What can I do with it? ∙ Where can I learn more about what you just described using meaningless buzzwords? Edit: This page has more informa…

Their essay has a tl;dr at the bottom, I didn't bother reading the actual essay. It was way too long, when all I wanted was the answers to the three questions you posed. >TL;DR Digital art is one of the first goods to evolve beyond scarcity. This evolution is changing the way content is discovered, publicized, paid for and delivered. Heretofore, the lack of transparency and monetization mechanisms in peer-to-peer sha…

Good description.

I think the problem with paying for content is not that it doesn't have a fancy protocol based off blockchain and its own coin.

It is that access to content is not straightforward and it is easier to pirate. What guarantee does Lbry offer that someone won't post a pirate copy of copyrighted content for free?

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