I see a lot of people uploading to youtube. Now there are a lot of advantages to youtube. Profit and reach. There's nothing wrong with that but when things start getting taken down and people complain I shake my head because it all was foreseeable from the beginning. History repeating itself over and over.
I want to be able to help but we live in a world dominated by google. I've even had to give google money recently doing SEO for other people. People are addicted to google. I could do a paid campaign on any other site and it would be just as effective but clients want to see themselves rank on google, and they want it now. It's all they care about because they know all of you use google.
We live in an era when we can see what is dangerous or is actively attacking us and still lack the discipline to not feed it. I wish people would get off google completely. It's like watching a person get bit by a snake repeatedly. Every time they reach in the basket they get bitten and the only thing that you can remark is, "what the hell did you think was going to happen!". Stop reaching into the google basket. I'm not even mad, just perplexed. I see the same behavior over and over and I don't know what's going to break the cycle.
That's why I build gvid. I don't know that it's going to break the cycle but I had to have some hope that something would and I had to do at least some part while I was watching people do the same thing over and over even if it fails. It will likely fail but at least I tried. I wish some people would try to put some effort into removing google from their lives. I don't care what you do to do it. Do something.
This is why I know our society is doomed. So many secret conspiracies aginst you. You are lucky if you can uncover them in time. But when someone is abusing your rights in broad daylight, you do nothing. When someone kicks you around in broad daylight you do nothing. Trump was supposed to be the moment we realized we can do something. Well, we need a new something to do. Killing google might be a good option. Are we going to put this off because we have to kill it someday, so let's just do it now.
VictorDaniels777 ago
No google money. Bitcoin is the decentralized elitist killer.
md3inaustin ago
P.S. I'm advertising for ya over at Gab.ai, Twitter, and Facebook
IsThisThingSafe ago
What is gab.ai? I got an invitation to join them in my inbox and it freaked me out because I didn't remember giving them my info (though, honestly, I probably did and forgot).
md3inaustin ago
Gab.Ai is the new Twitter for Pro-Free-Speech People, Heavily focused on Anti-Censorship. Awesome site, been there for a couple months now.
md3inaustin ago
bikergang_accountant You are awesome,Thank you for developing GVid.pw! I found your Voat thread while searching for YouTube alternatives after coming here from the Reddit PizzaGate thread, and starting this conversation over at GAB.AI. Been interested in starting or contributing to a project to replace YouTube for a while, done some research on what web languages and hardware would be required to make a competitive decentralized YouTube alternative. Decentralization is a beast all on it's own, but if gvid.pw is developed right and begins to really become a competitor against YouTube, decentralization will be required to keep BigGov from shutting down at the host or DNS level via DDOS and bruteforce attacks. feel free to checkout my linkedin profile under the same nick. Priv msg me, I'd love to discuss in depth.
bikergang_accountant ago
Decentralization of video distribution has a tone of notes in my notebook. I have it mapped out.
I plan to make a standard cdn before that though so it will be layers.
My hope is to make it so the first segment of video is grabbed from cdn while the rest is from p2p webRTC.
Basically if the piece is grabbed from very close to the player position it grabs from cdn.
But search and user pages are first. The thing is holding up surprisingly well for such a little box.
Again, you are awesome. I have a gvid day tomorrow so I might talk more in depth with you on linkedin then.
lemon11 ago
I don't know if it's worth it, but I've thought that something like IPFS would make a great CDN. And if a torrent client can work under webrtc, that probably can, too.
Thank you for your work!