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Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
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Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki "Tribler: an attack-resilient micro-economy for media", first code April 2005
Very neat project. Since you are one of the contributors, I'd like to ask a philosophical question: The wiki has this quote (emphasis mine) >Tribler is a Bittorrent-compatible alternative to Youtube. It is designed to protect your privacy, build a web-of-trust, be attack-resilient, and reward content creators directly. We are building a micro-economy without banks, without advertisers, and without any government I se…
> Since you are one of the contributors
Good to hear we are still nicely under the radar:-) We are the oldest and largest ledger research lab of Europe. (117 contributors for all repos, https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/graphs/contributors)
> 1.) How does that get unified in the mind of contributors?
Fascinating question. Universities have all sorts of measures to shield the actual researchers from providers of funds. Academic independence is deeply culturally and procedural embedded. For instance, as a tenured professor, I can't realistically be fired for creating "illegal innovations".
> 2.) It seem to me that in general people want government.
In my opinion, an economy is too important to leave to governments to run and tune. Sadly we don't have an alternative to government-led economies. Self-governance and self-regulation indeed leads to abusive behavior. e.g. Google "moral hazard banking".
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#153Ok, so I'm looking at a website that tells me it's decentralized. But from all I can tell this is just a good old website. Somebody has control over the domain name. Points it to servers of his choice. And the servers deliver content of his choice. What's decentralized about it?
A good old website? No. We don't need the domain, you can take the https://github.com/dtube/production repository, ipfs add -r it on ipfs, and use DTube this way -> https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmRWPnY8h7Eg4v74GtKT6UBy2kUAN139QwYPUrg... (few bugs but it works apart from /home not being rendered on first load, you need to click the logo) What is decentralised: - The website (its fully static and can be hosted on ipfs) - The v…
Here does "decentralized" also mean "censorship-resistant"? In light of YouTube censoring perfectly legal videos for wrongthink, I think it could be a big win for you to also come out as only censoring when there's a legal basis.
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#154Would this not run into the copyright issues most other distributed hosting networks run into? Especially since it allows directly monetizing the content.
Copyright issues are the easy end of the problem stick too. I'm going to straight up ask - what happens when a child porn ring starts using this?
It appears to already be a home to some fringe stuff.
"Big cities are like financial slave camps - Take a break at the Zenvow Meditation Resort - All crypto Meditation Resort in Portugal" (of course this is crazy, but harmless—at least initially)
I would also like to know what solution has been proposed for that problem.
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#155Wow, nice domain. I wonder how much that cost
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/wiki "Tribler: an attack-resilient micro-economy for media", first code April 2005
Think there would be substantial interest in that "Blockchain Engineering" Masters program if you put it online ;)
Most material is covered in the most recent Stanford talk listed here: https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues/3472
The following Github issues all contain the detailed class project descriptions, as first item. Engineering projects are creating a storagecoin, fully self-replicating bots, self-sovereign identity. All for 4-5 engineers to do in 10 weeks. Last post is the final project report. https://github.com/Tribler/tribler/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3A... Key lesson of "Blockchain Engineering" class: blockchain is 1% hashing/crypto and 99% Engineering. (thank you for clicking around on our website!)
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#157Ok, so I'm looking at a website that tells me it's decentralized. But from all I can tell this is just a good old website. Somebody has control over the domain name. Points it to servers of his choice. And the servers deliver content of his choice. What's decentralized about it?
Can't the same be said about apps?
You download Google Chrome. For all you know it's phoning home all your passwords to Google in a way they can decrypt and they can empty your bank account.
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#158So where does the money come from? This might be a question about STEEM more than DTube, but I couldn't figure it out. The DTube FAQ answer for "Where does the money come from" just says "The STEEM blockchain keeps printing new STEEM everyday. These new printed STEEM are given out as rewards." I'm hoping there's more to it than that, but I couldn't find what the mechanism for bringing value into the STEEM ecosystem i…
People are buying STEEM using Bitcoin to gain attraction to their content. Ads basically.
Imagine if Facebook used a crypto for their ads instead of money. And you gain money back from people who like your ad making the ad cheaper or even profitable.
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
It just needs an incentive to have others host your content, AKA FileCoin. You've always gotta pay a little bit to keep your sites up.
I think it's worse than that, there needs to be an incentive for businesses to own and support it for non-enthusiasts. How could Apple or Google or Amazon or Facebook make money by promoting a distributed internet?
> How could Apple or Google or Amazon or Facebook make money by promoting a distributed internet?
Perhaps unprofitability is a feature, not a bug.
Individuals can choose to seed content they care about (given an effective UI), which means the content will be available as long as enough people care about it. “Enough” does need to be a sufficiently small number.
Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS
#160What steps are being done to combat the doxing of individualists on DTube? DTube doesn't have much of a mainstream future if it becomes a haven for people harassing others / posting their personal information.