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Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by thisgoesnowhere »

jasode wrote: post #12
bagels wrote: post #5

How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for?

>How is the infrastructure and bandwidth paid for? For bandwidth intensive usage such as video, it will probably be "paid relays" instead of free ones. Click on url in the "Popular paid relays" paragraph to see examples: https://nostr.how/en/relays Nostr is popular with the cryptocurrency community so the payment mechanics seem to favor Bitcoin and/or Bitcoin Lightning.

It's really not popular at all and it's growing linearly in terms of users (death sentence for a social) yet completely flat (suspiciously flat in my opinion) in terms of adoption.

https://stats.nostr.band/

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by rambambram »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #25

decentralized anything never works at scale, this is what all the techie founders never grasp. what happens if someone uploads a child porn video or cartel beheading video on your website? because of your algorithm ll stack things by watch time it ll get to the front page in no time. What measures/controls do you have because your site explicitly says "we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we di…

> decentralized anything never works at scale

I'm pretty impressed by this thing called 'the internet'.

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by tambourine_man »

vivzkestrel wrote: post #25

decentralized anything never works at scale, this is what all the techie founders never grasp. what happens if someone uploads a child porn video or cartel beheading video on your website? because of your algorithm ll stack things by watch time it ll get to the front page in no time. What measures/controls do you have because your site explicitly says "we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we di…

The problem with decentralized is more of UX and latency than moderation, IMO.

Just look at Mastodon. The issue is not the crazy content you get from time to time. What’s annoying is waiting for media to appear on your timeline and explaining newcomers that they must choose a server and the double @@ thing.

The second is a one-time thing at signup and perhaps surpassable. The first is a deal breaker. Anyone used to Instagram and TikTok’s timeline would just dismiss it as broken on the spot.

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by askonomm »

the_gastropod wrote: post #42
askonomm wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As evidenced by how Fediverse works (Mastodon for example); The networks actively ban bad acting networks, have very active set of moderators on each network, etc. How is this any different from centralized thing?

The Nostr website basically makes fun of this aspect of Mastodon. https://nostr.com/comparisons/mastodon

Oh, well, I should've read the fine print. My bad.

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by [deleted] »

pavlov wrote: post #11
eviks wrote: post #7

Congrats on launch! Login button: 3 times I see the word "Nsec" without any explanation, that would lose a lot of youtubers from transitioning But a bigger issue is that googling about nsec tells me it's a very bad practice: "Some argue that the user should never enter their nsec into an input field at the risk of being compromised by the service. Given the nature of nostr, users cannot recover from a leaked private…

> “Given the nature of nostr, users cannot recover from a leaked private key and must take greater precaution than they would with a username/password combination.” This is a complete dealbreaker for any end-user product. I don’t understand why crypto/blockchain fans still think it can work.

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Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by jgilias »

smcleod wrote: post #57

The sites design is very aesthetically pleasing, well done on that front. Something that put me off a bit was immediately seeing bitcoin influencer content after loading the page.

That’s just the nature of Nostr at the moment. It’s very Bitcoin adjacent. There’s significant overlap between Nostr and Bitcoin developers. Also, Bitcoin (through Lightning) is the currency used on Nostr for anything and everything.

I can totally see how that’s off putting for normal people though.

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by OsrsNeedsf2P »

irusensei wrote: post #2

Makes me wonder if LBRY went with Lightning instead of creating a shitcoin token they would probably still be around today and maybe even integrating with Nostr.

LBRY is doing just fine* with Odyssey.com

* as fine as an alt-YouTube ever does

Re: Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr

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Post by l33tman »

the_gastropod wrote: post #3

> BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree Ah, right. Too much content moderation is the biggest problem with YouTube. /s

Just vaguely reminds me of: https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you...
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