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TheGuySwann | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +12 
 Nostr doesn’t yet fix the colossal storage and hosting problem that is the YouTube database, but I think it’s an important part of the solution.
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cuban | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Or even the audience yet. Like he said on his post, he's on other platforms but no one watches
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atyh | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +5 
 The audience will happen when we build a viable, simple, sustainable alternative, and the creators arw driven to it. Then the mob will follow.
And then the serious attacks against nostr begin.
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cuban | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 yep, or enough people with audiences get deplatformed and bring people over
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Dissident Sound | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 i wrote about this:

https://dissidentsound.discoursehosting.net/t/is-video-overused-as-a-medium/831
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N3WD3V | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Sorry What's gab?
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Dissident Sound | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 gab.com
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N3WD3V | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Interesting 🤔
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iefan 🕊️ | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 Yes, but it keeps your contacts. So, even if some third-party CDN refuses to provide your services, you can change to another one and still have your audience.

Personally, I like this model. Hosting videos on 'distributed' relays is a nightmare.
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TheGuySwann | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Yeah for sure, that’s what makes it such a huge improvement to the problem. I certainly don’t think relays should host video, I don’t even think they should host images. But hosting, organizing, and making largely persistent the vast amount of data that YouTube does in a responsive manner seems a Herculean task.

I have faith it can be done, but aggregating a video database from potentially 100s of CDNs is going to be anything but a simple or straightforward problem, imo. Very curious to development in this area though.
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bitmax | 1 years ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Nostr is not yet the solutuon for everything. There is more usefull freedom tech like Peer-Tube instances and Odysse/ Lbry. But most people wait for the pain instead. Why?