It's great to see that the project is still being updated and innovating, especially since BitTube pooped the bed.
I think the fundamental problem remains, however: how do you incentivize people pinning their own or other peoples' videos on IPFS? Without that, there's tremendous storage costs and the videos can't stay up very long. Having videos disappear is a deal-breaker for most content creators.
Yeah I feel that. With the new update I should hope that alleviates a lot of those concerns
I’m very excited about Filecoin! Will there be some integration with DTube eventually?
What about allowing creators to allocate/pledge a (larger) percentage of their videos’ revenue to DTube in order to keep it pinned longer and defray DTube’s costs? Or allow fans of the creator’s video to pay/donate (in DTB or STEEM) for that?
Yes, people generally seem to have no idea how much transcoding, bandwidth and storage costs are. Maybe more education would help with that? YouTube is able to give all that for free by selling intrusive advertising, I think, which has terrible negative side effects (e.g.: censorship).