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zyrotin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Video will likely be the hardest. Server storage capacity and bandwidth are likely going to be the stumbling block. Needing ad support (🤮), paid memberships, or some other way to keep from bankrupting the person/group hosting the files.
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Karnage | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Yeah. I think we can work something out though. If all creators are paid via some deposited sats of sorts, perhaps there could be a markup to cover all hosting. 

I think zapstream at times covers 50% of the hosting fees. I think this id a great start and we can optimize to cover 100%

Ironically, the more users you have the cheaper the space becomes (economies of scale / negotiation leverage). So just having more users on platforms helps cover the costs despite increased usage.
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florian | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Take down orders of copyright holders, DCMA notices and the like, will also be a big issue at some point. Content moderation might be needed. 

It will be hard to find individuals that will provide a domain with the risk of legal actions against them. 

Maybe it would need to be a P2P video distribution based on bittorrent or similar technology.
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camper | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Is the complementary ad model a complete tabu? Same as algorithms, I don't think it should be.

YouTube like client would be a great space for advertising other nostr projects and onboarding new nostriches.

What makes the ad-space trashy is either if you as a platform lean more into ad money vs ad quality (relevance); or malicious censorship (especially if you're a monopoly).

If you nurture your ad-space to be high quality first, highly curated links to complementary nostr services, it should work really well.

And if you start caving away from quality into being a sellout, nostriches will just stop sharing your links, and start sharing the competition's ones. Because, building a sustainable monopoly on nostr will be close to impossible.
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zyrotin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My aversion to ads is more that you tend to see the same thing over and over and over again.
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camper | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I can see that. Especially if you don't have programmatic ads, and rather something more static.

Well, develop ad blindness and just don't see then 😅
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zyrotin | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 lol, if only that were an option. 45 years in I don't think that's going to happen.
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L 0 K 1 | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 I'm not interested in advertising being part of my podcast watching experience unless the podcaster does the ads manually as part of the intro/outro. That ginger maniac, JP Sears shows how it's done.