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A proposal to fix Social Media/YouTube
I am posting on anonymously hacker news for various reasons, mostly to gain feedback on the idea:
The problem:
Youtube/Social Media has a lot of problems. It’s controlled by very few companies ie (Facebook, Google). People are being de-platformed for voicing their opinions. The algorithms are a blackbox
The solution:
Build an open source decentralized peer to peer social network/video sharing website. Where advertisers can pay the content creators/server hosts (peers) with cryptocurrency.
Getting paid in cryptocurrency would incentivize people to host videos and create content. This would solve the problem of lack of seeds most p2p solutions have.
While decentralized, this does not mean it's a free for all where people can post anything. But it does mean that the algorithm for monitoring content can be open and improved to make better.
Ideally this would become a new way to host all forms of social media/videos and it could be created by the people for the people as opposed to the big tech companies.
- newyoutubeidea 6y agoI am posting this anonymously to get feedback on this idea, I am a software developer capable of building this, but I would like to make this a community effort of people who would like a new type of social media.
- drKarl 6y agoDo you mean like PeerTube or DTube?
- drKarl 6y agoThere's others, like LBRY
- newyoutubeidea 6y agoYes, very similar. But the problem I've seen with those solutions is that many of the videos have a lack of seeds. This would add the ability to pay content creators/peers with cryptocurrency, so they could be incentivized to create videos/host the content.
- drKarl 6y agoWell, DTube is based on Steemit and content creators are rewarded with cryptocurrency tokens (STEEM)
- newyoutubeidea 6y agoI see. Yes, it looks like DTube is already a successful implementation of this idea. Thank you for showing me that, I didn't know about DTube I was only familiar with PeerTube.