Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS by leoc on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @05:50AM (#16482122)

> In a transitional phase to a distributed web I'd expect a lot of websites to employ a similar approach of using CDNs at first (since not everybode has local nodes running)

I'd like to think so, but a more cynical take is that efforts like this to trade on 'distributed' will either (and most likely) fail or, if they do get traction, ditch the distributed backend once it's served its purpose as a selling-point to attract early adoption.

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Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS by hobofan on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:00AM (#16482150)

TBH, I'm not sure how big of a future video "platforms" will even have. With IPFS+Filecoin and a few other parts, it might become quite trivial to host your own video content. With that the focus could possibly shift to platforms like Patreon, and if the payment parts of that can be commoditized (via things like Stellar and SatoshiPay), maybe even back to the good old website. One can only dream...

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Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS by TekMol on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @06:46AM (#16482318)

    With IPFS+Filecoin and a few other parts, it
    might become quite trivial to host your own
    video content.

Using Filecoin means you are not hosting it yourself.

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Re:Dtube – A decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS by hobofan on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @08:34AM (#16482833)

Oh, of course, my bad. I mean't to express "have your content hosted without a central party gatekeeping party".

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