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Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! πŸŽ‰ Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree πŸ€— Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like. Check it out at
Flare
Unstoppable video. You host your own content, post it to Nostr, and share it with the world. There's nothing the Commies can do about it
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↩ replying to npub1j4cd...xzuf
There are 2 elements of a YouTube style client. The organization of metadata (listings) Actual storage YouTube does both because it’s centralized and I don’t know if it loss leaders it’s service for other purposes or not. Haven’t checked how profitable it is. The idea here that you can use kind 1063 and host a URL elsewhere works too. I’m still building something that could be useful for decentralized storage though it’s far from ready for prime time. Flare’s is probably a good start especially for bootstrapping a set up. πŸ€·β€β™‚οΈ
↩ replying to npub1j4cd...xzuf
It would make sense to keep the discovery/social aspect separate from the media storage and allow for multiple sources for the same video in case some go down. And possibly you could upload to many places at once. (repeating myself here, it would be nice to have) (A) Torrent (like) protocol where you pay for download/stream and get paid in bitcoin for actively hosting it. Where people could sponsor the streaming of a video (or a part of it) if they wanted more eyes on their content.
↩ replying to npub1axh8...kd4p
what is odd about Torrents is nobody is required to actually keep the files available on their computers after downloading them and somehow Torrents still work when i download a file i remove it from the torrents list and close the Torrent client for example. my PC is on 24/7 and there is a solid terabyte of data on it that originally came from Torrents yet i am only making available a few GB of that data for maybe half an hour per month on average ... and Torrents STILL WORK what if you were required to keep at least 100GB of active torrents available at least 8 hours a day on average ? the answer is downloads would max out your bandwidth 10 times out of 10, even with the average user having asymmetrical bandwidth like 300 down / 20 up.
Great work! I like your idea for incorporating advertising. Re-articulating ads as a "sponsor" and only in one place seems like a really big improvement over all the sneaking attention-gaming other platforms do, and probably better for the advertiser too. Still gotta watch out for the perverse incentives, once you're bought you're bought, but it's a cool approach.
I was like the 4th to share this... been waiting with a 5k zap....Can't believe no one's done this yet... GMFN...🀣 View quoted note β†’ https://image.nostr.build/e874d32d694774c12f2a71d19cbe9acd80d4be8fd94af7f3514a95540929c7a1.gif#m=image%2Fgif&dim=200x151&blurhash=%23O9R%3BSNQR%24x%3ADNb%5DofjYozIxV%7DV%3Fn%7Bx%5DXBovaeWXkvogocbdjXV%5BW9awj%3FXWs%3AV%3FRjabayoykAj%5Ep0V%5BockDjcozV%40ofWBWFbEe-ajkCV%40WAk8aebJoej%3FbJkCe.j%5DbHjb&x=a25e39640c885c9ed5984660292fe295d687d21bf46b426529bfd1195eb955c6
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User's avatar npub1zach...5dy5
Today I'm launching Flare, a video sharing site built on Nostr! πŸŽ‰ Like YouTube, Flare lets you upload, view, comment, and like videos from your favorite creators. BUT unlike YouTube, we can't strike, shadow-ban, or demonetize you just because we disagree πŸ€— Since Flare is built on Nostr, you are free to serve your content from anywhere and consume content from any kind 34235 client you'd like. Check it out at
Flare
Unstoppable video. You host your own content, post it to Nostr, and share it with the world. There's nothing the Commies can do about it
 πŸ”₯
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I don't quite understand why this is so good. Maybe it's technical and I just need to learn more, but isn't one major reason nostr is so censorship resistant because the notes can be posted to multiple relays? I've often been confused about how the analagous dynamic could be done for video. If this is just uploading a video to one server hosted by Flare, or anybody else, doesn't have the same long term problem as any other video hosting platform? #asknostr View quoted note β†’
Now we're talking! Two comments. First, looks like the views are not registering on the videos. The latest one from Fractal Bitcoin has four likes, but no views. Something's broken there. Second, instead of having to upload a video manually to your servers, could we drop an IPFS link to a video that we already uploaded to our IPFS server and have it connect to the network and start to play the video directly from the source? If your server needs to cache the data, that's fine, it's shared as a public file. But that would save a lot of hassle for those of us who use IPFS already.
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Great effort but could you please comment this opinion: "Flare isn’t the Nostr solution you think it is"
Flare isn’t the Nostr solution you think it is | Simplified Privacy
 Flare.pub is supposed to be a decentralized video app for Nostr It is unclear how Flare prevents Flare itself from deleting your videos, as Nostr’s protocol doesn’t store videos, the relays store messages. Even worse than Nostr’s regular images being on 1 random server with government DNS, Flare centralizes that to a single entity. And even worse than that, Flare has chosen Amazon AWS with Google 3rd party JavaScript on his main website. It’s unclear what the purpose of Flare is, if it’s not to defy Big Tech companies. There are a few approaches one could take instead. One approach is federation, where users self-host websites. This is how our website works with Nostr signing integration for video comments. This is also how Peertube works. Our website vid.simplifiedprivacy.com is basically Peertube but with Nostr subscriptions/comments.
↩ replying to [bit] max⚑️
Flare prevent's itself from deleting your videos because ideally, we aren't the ones hosting them. To be self-soveriegn you should be the one to host your own content and ensure it will persist. Flare and Nostr acts as a discovery layer on top, allowing people to find, comment, like, and zap videos that have been shared with the network. There are alot of great devs working on solutions to more robust self-hosting of media (cc @hzrd149 ) but Flare as a project is strickly focused on the distribution and UI layer on top.
↩ replying to npub1zach...5dy5
I've been hunting around searching for someone who is working on a bridge between IPFS and Nostr. I self-host all of the videos that I produce on IPFS before I upload them anywhere else, and the ability to plug in a CID into a video sharing service would be ideal. It's just a vision because I have no dev skills, but have you seen anyone working on making that connection?