Hay @heimindanger,
at first: Congratulations to you and thank you for all the effort you‘ve spend here! You really deserve the current hype around your plattform.
The following comment is based on the assumption that I can still pay money to keep a video online even if it has a lot of downvotes. If this is not true, skip the rest of this comment :P
I really love your projects and I also like the idea behind dtube pretty much and I know the struggle of posting critical content on youtube pretty well, but I think your answer to the Copyrighted and Extremist content part is a little bit .. how to say that? .. to easy?
The first thing that came to my mind are things like child porn. At least in Germany you go to jail for up to 5 years if you own or distribute child porn and I would assume that it is something simular in other countries. As I agree with you in the point that you only provide the domain and the used software, this could still be a point @nannal should think about.
Beside that I see some moral aspects. Imagine a video someone getting raped – Could you life with the thoughts that everyone can see the most awful moment of the victims life? Or another sample that is not that hard: Image someone would upload a nacked picture of you with your name in the video listed on google. And I guess everyone who thinks a little bit about this can identify a lot more samples like the ones above.
I want to point out that, from my point of view, there needs to be a mechanism to get content removed from the plattform. For sure developing the machism will be really hard without implementing something that can be abused to remove opinions someone does not like, but I think without this kind of mechanism the plattform could be easily used to destroy someones life as long as I have ~0.44$ / 100Mb to keep my video up.
Way less actually, it's $0.044 USD/GB/month. So 100 MB or so would be about $0.003771/month or about $0.045252/year.
$0.44 would be about 10 years so way longer.
Thank you very much for the clarification @heimindanger - Good to know that you / @nannel are prepared for those cases.
if you already have a mechanism for removing illegal content (copyright DMCA infringement, pedophilia etc) why are you introducing the "downvote to 0 = not stored" thing? it will obviously be abused for censorship purposes by powerful entities.