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Isn't this just a little complicated for a YouTube alternative? I mean, maybe I'm being a bit silly here, but don't most people like YouTube and other services
by CM30 10y ago
Isn't this just a little complicated for a YouTube alternative? I mean, maybe I'm being a bit silly here, but don't most people like YouTube and other services cause they're super simple to use? One domain, various videos on said domain, link to a video never changes.
This on the other hand... it feels like it was made for a tech audience instead of a mainstream one. You've got the decentralised aspect with its own protocol and app. You've got a weird payment system where someone can outbid the original creator to take over a URL for some reason or another. And you've then got the awkward content filtering/censoring side that somehow still exists in a supposedly decentralised service.
This seems like something that's gonna be pretty hard to explain to the average Joe who's merely looking for cat videos and doesn't know what a credit or protocol or client or anything else means.
I also have to wonder who the 'main' target audience is here. People that like decentralised services don't want a system where things like DMCA notices actually work. I mean, can you imagine if torrents could somehow be synced to remove all copyrighted content on request? No one would use them. And the idea of other laws (those related to 'hate speech' for example) being something you can implement on a decentralised service doesn't appeal either.
Meanwhile, you've then got the aforementioned confused average Joes, for whom a simple server/client system is about as complex a deal as they can be bothered with, and both groups wondering why an auction system exists for video URLs.
Feels like an overengineered, not quite intuitive solution to a problem.