Sadly, decentralised streaming is a bit of a dud right now. Dlive famously built quite a solid decentralised live streaming platform, they even landed PewDiePie with an exclusive deal. One year on, PewDiePie has signed a contract with YouTube instead.
Besides allowing racists and people promoting alternative health conspiracies proclaiming vaccines are bad and will depopulate the human race, I can't see how decentralisation will offer anything new. If anything, issues like swatting will be even worse on decentralised streaming platforms if they offer the same anonymity that Hive and other chains provide.
At least if someone swats a streamer on Twitch, you have a dataset of viewers and donations you can trace to determine who might be responsible. Anonymous crypto tips and donations will just allow these cowards to hide even more.
The reality is, most people don't care about decentralisation and never will.
Wut? How was dlive decentralized in any way shape or form?
Swatting has nothing with the platform to do, someone without an account on a vpn or a public library could make a phone call anonymously to swat someone.
Point is even with all the shit that may come with decentralization and the freedom that brings to bad actors, we'd rather deal with that than companies taking people out one at a time at their discretion without even justifying the reasons properly.
Dlive incorporated tech from Theta Network for the decentralisation aspect. I don't think it was 100% decentralised in all aspects, but that part for the peer to peer component was.
Thats true. Swatting can still happen and be anonymous, but, if you have the IP addresses of anyone viewing a specific stream, it's possible you could do some form of contact tracing. It's not a scientific approach and admittedly, I doubt that would happen in most instances (except maybe where someone was shot/killed). Also, not a guaranteed approach when someone could use a VPN, etc.
The ToS situation is definitely a problem. Furthermore, the DMCA situation about music and threatening streamers using h copyrighted music with suspensions and bans, that was pretty shitty as well. They gave streamers no specifics and gave them a couple of days to download, edit or delete their videos.
I think Dlive proved that decentralised or not, even signing up the biggest name in online content to an exclusive streaming deal that competing with Twitch is impossible. Only Google and YouTube can compete, even so, it won't be easy. Microsoft attempted the same thing with Mixer and even Mixer failed,despite being a better streaming platform (in my opinion).
Dlive is the same as most other streaming platforms, maybe less cuts involved but in the end it's all about consumers being the one dishing out the money. Mixer is the same too and I think it's hard for new platforms no matter if they're better in some way or take less of a cut of consumers and streamers to catch up to Twitch cause it's miles ahead and keeps improving/coming up with new things to leave the consumers wanting more.
So I guess my point is we need a complete overhaul, streamers and consumers to feel more like they're in this together, they both gaining something monetarily is also a bonus and them all being in charge of what they allow to be monetized on the platform and what should be shunned instead of a central authority doing the decisions.
You reminded me I completely forgot to bring up DMCA's, ugh this world is turning to a selfish pile of shit.
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