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This is federated video hosting services like XMPP designed for federated communication infrastructure. Player use webtorrent to use BitTorrent protocol for vi

This is federated video hosting services like XMPP designed for federated communication infrastructure. Player use webtorrent to use BitTorrent protocol for video streaming. This system gives limited control to the company or individual hosting the federated server to manage videos hosted on their platform only. The only issue I see in this service is same faced by email and XMPP servers. So hopefully the federated server is not controlled by few players like happened in case of email and in spite of being federated controlled by large players like google, in another instance WhatsApp and google both used XMPP and removed support for federation when they became sufficiently large.

badrabbit 7y ago
Email is not dominated by a few players unless you think email is strictly free webmail and even then there are like a dozen of them.
- basch 7y ago
  If you combine corporate hosted email and free webmail, the vast majority of marketshare is very likely Microsoft, Google, Verizon. Would you honestly believe they host less than 80% of SaaS email mailboxes between the three of them?
  - tinus_hn 7y ago
    Aren’t most of these unavailable in China?
    - basch 7y ago
      Same thing in China? Tencent and Netease probably have +80% of marketshare? Microsoft has presence there as well both on the Hotmail and Office 365 sides of the coin.
olah_1 7y ago
The reason that everyone congregates on only a few servers is because it solves the problem of discoverability (which is essential if you want others to watch your content).