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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

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Post by yAnonymous »

jwildeboer wrote: post #28

Interesting idea, but unfortunately (and as expected) full of antisemitic and „new world order“ conspiracy stuff by people that claim YouTube is censoring them.

By avoiding a service, because it's used by people you don't agree with, you act exactly like those people. You're not one bit better than them.

By the way, you'll find that kind on Youtube and Facebook, too. I hope you avoid both of them. Best avoid Google all together, because they own Youtube and are guilty by association.

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by thecatspaw »

yAnonymous wrote: post #42
stctgion wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With a new monetised platform, with money being incredibly obvious on the UI, the incentive is pretty high to just steal popular content from YouTube and repost it. How do they ensure original content or ownership?

If Facebook doesn't care about enforcing copyright, why should such a small website? That really seems like an argument that is made only to hurt startups.

> That really seems like an argument that is made only to hurt startups.

you're looking at this the wrong way. Yes, startups should enforce copyright. But so should facebook.

They just get away with it because they are big

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by nafest »

dayaz36 wrote: post #7
thecatspaw wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thats what the users earned by getting liked by other users

cumulatively or is that how much they're earning per month?

You can only earn the first seven days after the post was created.

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by simonh »

hobofan wrote: post #49
viraptor wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's likely to forever remain a niche for that kind of content only. What reasonable person would say: "I know, I'll host my video on that website which opens with a list of conspiracy videos and has antisemitism promoted in the sidebar next to my content/face." (And even more - which popular company would do that?)

If there are enough benefits to the platform and semi-popular (likeable) Youtubers switch to it, the problem should resolve itself after a few days. Luckily antisemites etc. are a minority of the population and can be easily outnumbered.

That's a really big IF, and semi-popular Youtubers have even more to lose from association with the existing content on there than most of us.

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by Tepix »

nafest wrote: post #53
dayaz36 wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

cumulatively or is that how much they're earning per month?

You can only earn the first seven days after the post was created.

If you create something that has a lasting appeal you should repost it every X days.. Sounds dumb.

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by imaginenore »

TekMol wrote: post #36

Ok, 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?

But that doesn't mean it's not decentralized. Think The Pirate Bay. It runs on domain names, some of them get blocked, new ones appear. It runs on servers, some of them get blocked, new ones appear.

That's the way the web works - your domain name points to an IP. That doesn't tell you much about the underlying architecture.

Unfortunately DNS is centralized, and your average user relies on it. If you want a successful project, you must be on the web.

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by Kiro »

mihaifm wrote: post #25
rebuilder wrote: post #23

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In this instance, heavy inflation might actually be a plus for STEEM. This is because it doesn't appear to be intended as a store of value, but as an influence market. As far as I can tell - and I'm sure there's a lot I've misunderstood - STEEM is essentially a market for on-line influence. You gain STEEM for upvotes etc. and the more STEEM tokens you have (STEEM Power), the more influence you have in terms of who ge…

Just curious...how do they implement inflation? Do they just double everyone's wallet every 2 years, or do they introduce the new coins through mining?

It's mining but most of the mining rewards are distributed to content creators and only 1 out of 20 blocks are going to the actual miner while 19 go to the witnesses (Delegated Proof of Stake).

Re: Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

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Post by simonh »

kalendos wrote: post #33

I like the idea and would love to try it! I have one small concern though. Since the incentive (money) is given to popular videos, why people should post unpopular opinions in Stemmit or videos in Dtube? That is, if I upload a video of a cat doing some funny thing I'll get more tokens (potentially) that with a super technical video.

Having a platform that incentivizes popular content should in theory attract popular content to the platform. This should attract viewers to the platform, thus increasing the viewership available to see your less popular content.

Meanwhile, incentivizing popular stuff doesn't take anything away from you or your content. You're not being penalised, so why complain?

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