DTube & Steemit 🔥 What you need to know!
DTube and Steemit are both decentralized apps (Dapps)
Dtube is an application fully written in javascript, that runs in the browser, that allows you to upload and watch videos on top of the IPFS Network. Moreover, it uses STEEM (3 second block time) as a database and enables earning rewards from your uploads.
https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/
Compare content creators vs ad platforms
Facebook/Youtube/Cable TV = Ad platform
Netflix = Video platform/content creator
Original release notes from developer
https://steemit.com/video/@heimindanger/introducing-dtube-a-decentralized-video-platform-using-steem-and-ipfs
While I personally believe that decentralization is the future, don't get your hopes too high yet. Competing with YouTube is an heavy task that cannot be done by one man. My intent with this project was to practically demonstrate the possibility of decentralized video on top of IPFS. It works, but we don't know how well it will work in the long-term. YouTube also has a lot of extra features that makes the experience superior. What I built, represents maybe 1% of the work required to have something that can compete with YouTube. I built some walls, but there is no insulation, or painting, and the whole building might collapse at any time.
Please note that DTube is in an early stage of development, don't think everything will work fine all of the time, but it does most of the time.
Limitations
-Can’t embed videos on steemit
-480P
-search features isn’t decentralized
-Slow, interrupted streaming
-No livestreams
-Small user base/ marketing budget
-Copyright/Censored material is manually down voted
https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/7viesq/so_dtube_cant_take_censor_videos/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dtube/comments/7s9emo/someone_is_stealing_my_yt_videos_and_uploading/
Advantages
-Ad free experience
-Pays content creators directly
-First and largest Dapp for video
-Working beta version
-Once beta testing is complete issues are expected to be resolved
Uses the IPFS protocol to store data
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterPlanetary_File_System
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Awesome video! I learned some great stuff and I appreciate your work on this one!! Try more click bait about how to make money with social media engagement type stuff! Get those views and get people to sign up for Steemit!! Thanks for the post!! Upvote / Resteem
good response @brettcalloway
Very neat breakdown, David! I think the more big players share their experiences with Steemit & Dtube on the centralized, albeit bigger platforms, the more users will see the massive benefits of adopting it and cutting out the greedy middleman.
As you mentioned, there definitely is still a way to go until all the issues are resolved, but I feel that the Steem platforms have already started off on a better foot than, for eg., Youtube has when they started. And knowing how much they've grown, it gets very exciting to imagine the incredible potential ahead.
Go David! Go Steem!
Hi! I am not a robot. I just upvoted you! Your content is awesome.
A great video indeed David, and I too cannot wait until DTube is able to get its shit together... it truly will become a YouTube killer!
As always thanks for sharing David. I saw Louis Thomas name drop you on his video or top crypto people on YouTube. Was glad to hear it. Love ya both! Perhaps our paths will cross when your in NYC in a few weeks. Cheers.
I've been watching Louis videos for a long time, he's a great guy with killer content.
Learned a lot from your videos. I really appreciate them. Thank you David.
Lol those comments. One thing that will get @davidhay worked up are bots 😂
Funny it seems to me everyone is trying to get an "upvote" on their replies . But the funny part is that the real value does not come from an upvote but the knowledge understood and grasped within the content as well as applying that knowledge.
well said
Great informative video as you so rightly point out dtube is a work in progress and will improve if the open source developer community gets behind it. Even with all its drawbacks I much prefer to watch videos on dtube as I do not have to watch all those advertsiments
It's so refreshing to be on an ad-free platform!
No more bitconnectttttttt ads :p
It's the other way. There are bots that can be used by advertisers to send their content to the trending page.
What's so good about DTube is that it's built on top of Steemit, so there's already a community, a comments section and so on.
A project that is possibly even more promising is LBRY.
It still has a long way to go though.
First of all, it's an entirely new protocol, so you'll have to install their app to use it. If I'm not mistaken the protocol can be implemented to regular browsers though, it's just a matter of the browsers supporting it.
Another issue as of right now is that there's no comments section yet, so it feels a bit dead. This will come later on though, the developers are focusing on fixing bugs and making it stable first.
You can choose to upload videos (and other types of content like mp3, pdf etc.) for free, or charge for it. The content is stored by the people who consume it... if they choose to. If they choose to they're compensated in LBRY Credits which can be traded for other cryptos, or be spent to consume paid content.
That's how it's supposed to work down the line at least. The developers are also really friendly and responsive on discord.
One thing is certain, YouTube is not the future 😉
Im loving your information on youtube and its great you are on DTube and Steemit. Thanks for your efforts.