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ChipTuner | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Yeah. When I have time to get around to blossom, I'm hoping we can make a difference there :/

It's obvious big data is a difficult problem to work with
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 it isn't really difficult... blossom is cool but honestly i think it's just reinventing a gutted version of bittorrent... it is useful for a simple way to host media and upload it from http, which has benefits for browser based apps and users, but for actually distributing the data bittorrent already does everything

perhaps if blossom was merged into becoming part of a special purpose bittorrent tracker that has a blossom socket as well, this could be very cool

bittorrent is THE solution for a youtube killer, and always will be (disregard the stupid overcomplicated IPFS based shit tho, that shit is too complicated)

many browsers now have bittorrent downloaders built into them and there is plenty of torrent clients available for all languages including javascript so, aside from the blossom enabling simple http access, for supporting data heavy video and audio is gonna need bittorrent, IMO

and for streaming, obviously there needs to be support for these protocols but that's probably a separate issue... decentralised stream caching is a different game
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ChipTuner | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 I think I can agree. GN. Chat in AM :)
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laanwj | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yes, big data is incredibly difficult to work with (and video more so due to encoding/streaming woes), especially if the goal is to have a degree of decentralization

it's also really expensive (storage, bandwidth, CPU for transcoding), it is not possible to ignore or postpone thinking about economics there to the degree that it is for short text