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RE: DTube 0.9: Doubling up your rewards
Publishing videos hosted elsewhere is a great feature.
I was able to get cross-publication on d.tube and STEEM working after some doing. So that's good.
I don't understand the need to create a completely separate blockchain. It seems like this could have been done on STEEM with just your SCOT.
I started working on this before I even knew about SCOT or Steem-Engine, but it's true a lot of features are similar (the focus on content discovery). SCOT is centralized though, while this is powered by blockchain, like STEEM.
But no it was not possible. This article doesn't include every detail about the differences with STEEM, but you can already see that DTC is liquid and tradable at any time (no need to 'power it up'), and the VP doesn't cap. The onboarding mechanism that we are going to release after the 31st of July is also different and should help getting people into crypto more easily than having a STEEM account.
Edit: Also the 'vote on a tag' is impossible on STEEM / SCOT because it's impossible to write a text alongside a vote on the chain (would be an easy change tbh)
look at the white paper if you wanna know more: https://token.d.tube/whitepaper.pdf
Publishing videos hosted elsewhere might be useful sometimes, but it mostly defeats the purpose of DTube, which is to be an independent video site. Another copy, in case YouTube goes down, or censors your video. This is just hotlinking (embedding), encourages plagiarism and copyright infringement, and brings no discernible upgrade to the users.
What about people who have been deplatformed on YouTube, and need somewhere to upload a video? This feature does nothing for them. It's just a YouTube support function. It's something which was available even on MySpace, 20 years ago.
This isn't all things to all people. The IPFS uploads are worth doing if you are deplatformed.
For the vast majority, using YouTube as a host and potential lead in to d.tube and steem is fine.