Steemit post damaged by removed google account again aka distributed youtube wanted!
What just happened
I just checked one my recent post and found out that the youbube video referenced is not available anymore due to removed associated account. It's not a first time I noticed account containing videos I was embedding had been removed by Google/Alphabet.
Steemit is a great platform, especially because it's not censored by some "higher authority" (you can read it as NWO/deepstate/globalist/totalitarians people and similar), but what is really assured there is "only" the included text of the posts. Images are stored elsewhere (even steemimg.com is vulnerable because it's centralized AFAIK and youtube is completely under control of Google, resp. Alphabet, its shareholders, various governments and regulation agencies).
Current Steemit status
To existing distributed blockchain text storage we also need image and video storage that cannot be censored or shut-down.
So far, Steem(it) provides this in terms of data:
- distributed text storage ✔
- distributed image storage ✗
- distributed video storage ✗
BTW the removed video was this CNN Fake News Trump meme clip, here I found a copy
And this one is just a bonus to it (maybe not that funny but much more informative :))
Possibilities
There are some projects initiated that might be quite helpful or even solve the problem one day
- SteemQ - https://steemit.com/steemq/@titusfrost/how-steemq-will-kill-youtube-censorship
- Viewly project - https://view.ly/
- LBRY - https://lbry.io/
- Annonymous distributed storages - StorJ, IPFS, Maidsafe, etc.
However none of these projects is far enough to provide adequate replacement for youtube yet.
Actually, I don't think Google/Youtube engineers (and even at least part of its management) are the bad guys. I know they have some morale, they even sacrificed their business in China because Chinese government required censorship and huge user spying. But troublemakers here are always the ruling elites (especially communists, socialist, neo-Marxists and corrupted democrats/republicans/libertarians) and special interest groups. We should really be much more careful about who we vote for (if we live in country where we still can vote). Those people elected in last decades were mostly corrupted and they, with their puppets, are already quite everywhere where is some power to harm people. Kudos to all uncorrupted (especially the influential) people who fight against censorship and all other forms of totalitarianism!
Conclusion
Get rid of internet censorship, make internet free again!
Unfortunately a huge amount of content on YouTube is exactly like posts on Steemit - plagiarism of some sort. As such it is subject to DMCA take down notices. When it comes down to it we don't like plagiarism on Steemit for the same reason as the rest of the world - it leeches away rewards and reputation from those that deserve it. On YouTube they have too response to DMCA notices, with Steemit I think we mostly dodge that issue by not hosting most infringing content.
That's good remark. You have some plagiarism everywhere if you want to find it. Is meme parodying some movie breaking its copyright? Maybe, but it's very subjective and you would have to go with each case to the court. And verdict would be quite different in each country depending on specific judge. Also you never know what the original creator appreciates. Some are angry when they copyrighted content is used, some others are glad because it creates better publicity. I don't think that censorship is good way to protect copyrights, patents or any other laws. People who wants to get some digital content will get it, no matter what.
There are also hundreds of thousands patents issued every year, now several millions in total. It's quite probable that every piece of software (Steemit included) is violating dozens of them. My idea is that all of this is waste of time and resources and it's part of totalitarian world. When you want to buy something, buy it. When you want to support someone, do it. When you know the producer is selling some content and not giving it for free, buy it, don't download it from warez. If you watched it already, buy DVD later. We all are building on many things people discovered before us for free and they often dedicated their lives to it, therefore we don't need to be that copyright-focused (if you are a believer you know everything good is from God anyway).
I would say we should stay human (buy and support creators if possible) but not to judge for every trifle. When someone warns you that some content should not be shared further, just accept it and remove it. We don't need 3rd party for this. We don't need prosecutors and judges to decide it for us. We have our own conscience knowing that stealing and not respecting others is wrong thing. We know that if we don't pay producers, they will stop producing sooner or later. We don't need draconian laws for that. Just renew your conscience and everything will go the right way. And even though someone might still feel harmed, let's talk about it, we are all people here. You don't even need to be a believer to understand these basic principles.
(sorry for long comment)
Exactly so that's why I proposed a trickle down effect which would work the same way as curation awards here on steemit.
If LBRY is delivering what they promise, then we have great times ahead.
LBRY already doesn't look bad at all. It might be really interesting in the future.
just noticed it is now in open beta! (no more email waitlist)
https://lbry.io/get
downloaded it but not tried it yet, I'll give it a go this weekend and do a review sometime next week.
And bought up some LBRY credits, I think it will be huge!
It really works, great job LBRY devs!
Agreed - Lbry is the way to go here. I'd definitely like to see some closer integration with Lbry and Steemit. The biggest barrier I see thusfar, however, is that Lbry requires a dedicated client and doesn't have browser support yet.
I'm sure this is technically feasible, perhaps with WebSockets or perhaps with a background daemon, but once solved, it seems like these two technologies can be key to replacing much of the social media monopolies that are currently in place.
steemit instead of youtube gets my vote!
Hey @jimmco
Have you looked into the Viewly project? it seems to be what you are looking for in terms of video. As far as i know you can already upload videos to it! Its of course not the same as a native integration into the Steem platform but i think it goes a long way towards the right directions :)
https://steemit.com/viewly/@furion/introducing-viewly
I was not aware of the viewly project. I will add it into the list and check it. Thanks for letting me know.
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Yeah, it's censorship a poor practice of sick people. Thanks for letting me know about the viwely project, @xtetrahedron already mentioned it.
Keep it simple and free. I really like that steemit has no advertising cluttering the interface. If investors come to support the cost of large data optimization and storage there will be advertising. With advertising comes censorship because then steemit is obligated to comply with their imposed morality standards. That dependency would change steemit.
I agree with you and hope that Steemit will not end like that.
excellent post, the day steemit replaces youtube will be a great day and a victorious day for the people.
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Censorship harms everyone. Great post.
The amount of data produced by the aggregate total of all images posted on steemit over time would require significant storage and would cause any blockchain technology to grind to a halt if it were stored within it intrinsically as opposed to URL references only.
Video is another matter completely completely.
Estimates (exact figures unknown AFAIK) for YouTube storage capacity run to into the exabyte range (10^18 bytes, or 1 billion gigabytes) and I'm sure it won't be too many years before it encroaches upon zettabytes and then yottabytes, even with advanced data deduplication methods like EMC.
Network traffic itself would be orders of magnitude larger than the storage (1+ view{s} equal to or greater than 1 file).
Yeah, I'm aware of that. It definitely cannot be replicated on all nodes like the text is. It should be stored similarly to how MaidSafe does it (I guess there are actually "just" 4 copies of same data in its network). Youtube had (already in 2012) about 80 petabytes of data. 5 years ago! No idea how it is now. Anyway once the technology is out, we will see real market working and really how expensive is to store 1 minute of HD video on such a network. Then demand and supply will fix the rest.
That's a big fix.
I'm currently involved in a network upgrade project and the installation alone of redundant core switches & associated routing equipment is $16,000 - not including the equipment; one (near) fully populated core switch is at least $12,000 by itself, then there's distribution switches and routers etc, plus racks/cabinets, redundant power supplies, SFP modules & fibre runs, the list goes on.
This is for a fairly limited scope network in a private local loop that's contained within a private infrastructure environment.
Storing 1min HD video every 1sec and serving thousands of mins HD video every 1sec in anything approaching user expectations requires significant provisions and maintenance, particularly when surge capacity, attack, and failure must all be accommodated.
I believe it could be done, but the capital outlay would require total monetisation of all steemit content, unless SBD is $3k, and vendors happily accept crypto as payment
:DWhen there is profitable business model set, millions from investors will come. Then it will be very tempting for big investors because it's well-known that internet-business can be very profitable. However to find proper monetization model is necessary. So far Steemit still doesn't have any.
Correct, for now ;)