whoever relays stuff 🇵🇸🏴☠️🇺🇲 on Nostr: The website I was talking about doesn't work, so I'm out of options in my search for ...
The website I was talking about doesn't work, so I'm out of options in my search for a decentralized, censorship-resistant way to post videos, music, etc.
A temporary solution would be for people to organize, which I'm pretty sure people can't do, but I'll try to plant the seedy seed since I have no better ideas right now.
2-step plan:
1. I ask nostr who else is looking for a decentralized, censorship-resistant way to post videos, music, etc.
2. I get killed by the military industrial complex immediately.
If that doesn't work, I have a longer 5-step plan I can branch into at step 2.
5-step plan:
1. Ask nostr who else is looking for a decentralized, censorship-resistant way to post videos, music, etc.
2. Establish a group of contacts with enough seeding capability to have good uptime collectively, even if each of us don't have good uptime individually. Meanwhile, balance the value of gathering momentum and being early, against the value of not personally working with anyone I don't want to work with (too many people are denialists and I don't trust them).
3. Discuss technical details like file sizes, transcoding, how to seed from different devices, etc.
4. Plan a day where we all post our shit as torrents on nostr and seed each other's torrents. Again, we do this hoping we can collectively start something with decent reliability and uptime, even if each individual can only seed sporadically.
5. Promote what we're doing on nostr, and maybe wherever else we expect to find people interested in posting, seeding, or simply downloading stuff this way.
If this works, it's still only a temporary solution, because it could grow increasingly unreliable and biased in favor of early adopters, which could potentially end up with newer content creators being more suppressed in this environment than on YouTube. An engineering solution is still needed to not only have P2P video hosting, but also systemically incentivize and maintain it. Grassroots organizing and engineering work will each be fruitless here without the other.
A temporary solution would be for people to organize, which I'm pretty sure people can't do, but I'll try to plant the seedy seed since I have no better ideas right now.
2-step plan:
1. I ask nostr who else is looking for a decentralized, censorship-resistant way to post videos, music, etc.
2. I get killed by the military industrial complex immediately.
If that doesn't work, I have a longer 5-step plan I can branch into at step 2.
5-step plan:
1. Ask nostr who else is looking for a decentralized, censorship-resistant way to post videos, music, etc.
2. Establish a group of contacts with enough seeding capability to have good uptime collectively, even if each of us don't have good uptime individually. Meanwhile, balance the value of gathering momentum and being early, against the value of not personally working with anyone I don't want to work with (too many people are denialists and I don't trust them).
3. Discuss technical details like file sizes, transcoding, how to seed from different devices, etc.
4. Plan a day where we all post our shit as torrents on nostr and seed each other's torrents. Again, we do this hoping we can collectively start something with decent reliability and uptime, even if each individual can only seed sporadically.
5. Promote what we're doing on nostr, and maybe wherever else we expect to find people interested in posting, seeding, or simply downloading stuff this way.
If this works, it's still only a temporary solution, because it could grow increasingly unreliable and biased in favor of early adopters, which could potentially end up with newer content creators being more suppressed in this environment than on YouTube. An engineering solution is still needed to not only have P2P video hosting, but also systemically incentivize and maintain it. Grassroots organizing and engineering work will each be fruitless here without the other.
quoting nevent1q…58fkSecond #asknostr post today but this one is more important. Need a second opinion on this plan.
I've waited a long time for someone to make a BitTorrent cloud seeding platform with a free tier, but it never happens. The internet itself is too heavily censored so far. A few offer free torrent downloading, but no free seeding that I can find.
There is one that has caught my attention despite charging for seeding, because it allows payment with Bitcoin, doggie coin, and Monero, while recommending Monero for its privacy.
Should I sign up for the paid service on the basis that I will let other content creators piggyback on my account for free? This way I'd basically be adding a limited free seeding tier myself. You just send me any torrent you need an extra seeder for, I check if it's safe for this service to host, and I add it to my account if so.
If they're really glowies trying to hurt the p2p community, they'll shut me down for depriving them of customers by sharing my account. If they're really just trustworthy p2p supporters trying to stay afloat up against the copyright cartel, they'll appreciate how I help their service provide free hosting using my own time and money. I guess I would also accept donations to let it grow beyond what I'm prepared to fund.
Anyone think this is a bad idea or should I go for it?
#bittorrent #p2p #torrenting