Honestly, I could see this as a pitch for a decent tiktok like service. Your video lives as long as someone somewhere has watched it recently. I might actually enjoy something like that.

Whoa no way I was thinking of something similar, viral-only videos kind of like the Reddit-button https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)

It exists: https://joinpeertube.org/

That’s where the innovation is needed. You need some form of dedicated hosting, dns, a notification system to alert you when new content is available or automatically download it. The static nature of the content isn’t problem, that’s how media has existed forever and most web media is still only published once and never revised. With a smart enough client though you could receive patches to existing content. The space is more similar to a newsletter but much more capable.

> For blogs, recipe sites and say content creators putting a new video on their site every week, this is not very practical

IPNS can be used to leverage IPFS for dynamic or updatable content. Lack of peers is still an issue of course, but it does away with the need for a dedicated CDN once your content gets popular enough since users will be seeding it themselves.

The online peers are virtually servers. If a market is created then peers could get paid to host/seed your site. Instead of buying say a server as we do today for HTTP sites. Also there are mutable torrents.

Zeronet can serve frequently updated content in distributed (p2p) network. It works for blogs, forum and social network.