Oddbean

Yay! I uploaded my first video to zap stream... Just don't know where my description go... #throwback It was march 2020 and I flew to Amsterdam on a 13 day trip. Within 5 days the plandemic worldwide was announced and the dear and chaos took over the global collective psyche. I ended up canceling flights and eventually ended up living in Amsterdam for 4+ months in. Tourist free environment. Super blessed to have experienced. And super grateful to my Global village that quickly found me a sanctuary home to land in and live for few months. My friend Ben Harris aka Yemanjo who was in Guatemala at the time linked me with a fellow who was gonna take me in and let me stay for free in his house. For some reason it didn't quite feel like a full yes in my body so I kept staying open to the right alignment. Eventually he introduced me to a woman who was stranded in Jamaica who was desparedly looking for someone to cover her monthly rent bill. She would normally charge higher tourist Airbnb prices but adjusted to match the circumstances. It was a win win... And I got to experience what it's like to be alone in my own aura for a whole few months... Dancing, creating and loving life. nostr:nevent1qqs93txs2p4c9gwfvx6tmgn0p3tfw09ffkpv87ah7ndwwpf2xg25dacpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsygp022celc2q3a57ur5snmv0etqn330nwrq9mcj0pkphptd8jafryvpsgqqqqqqs2xalxu

Ok nevermind. I uploaded a video. It looked like it was there and a few shorts moments later it was gone. The share link to my video to share on nostr leads to zap.stream home page. Trying to stay neutral despite the elevated disappointing and other sensations I am feeling about the last half an hour invested into tinkering and trying to figure out the not so intuitively set up uiux nostr:nevent1qqs0rpj3xf9uzrrpvp9scc7l6meeywd83mslk0ksqxsu5zf4kjawnlspr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmp0qgsz7543nls5prmfac8fp8kcljkp8rzlxuxqth3y7rvrwzk6096jxgcrqsqqqqqpqx0zl4

Video in nostr is a f*ckn mess right now. We have several server implementations that are not working properly or have size restrictions. Uploading errors are not handled or not explained to a user. We have specific video notes (that flare.pub/zap.stream use) which are not supported by the social apps. Your best bet right now is to get the creator plan from nostr.build and upload there. I’m currently working on an app to upload and manage your media on nostr and hope I can improve things a bit but it’s not something one app can solve alone.

You could link to cloudflare‘s IPFS gateway already. The issue with video is that no one can run a CDN with that kind of bandwidth for free. Almost all video players need an HTTPs server somewhere.