Hello... The pessimist over here.
Or maybe the realist.
I wasn't impressed.
It's essentially LIMEWIRE on Hive users PCs.
How the hell is that "superior web_3.0"?
So to compete with the mainstream platforms which store over 500 hours of video per minute on server farms running immense bandwidth, the model by 3Speak is to have the videos stored on home PCs?
So when the ambition is to be an alterative to mainstream (like your Alex Jones example) a user will need to have a dedicated room of PCs and hard drives and a high end internet connection with an unlimited data plan. So that automatically means only developed countries can participate. NO HOPE for poor countries. They can't even host a tiktok video.
You say that a person doesn't have to host all the content but actually... DAN POINTED OUT that in order to be guaranteed rewards a user will need to literally have THE ENTIRE 3SPEAK VIDEO DATABASE on their PC in order to have a higher guarantee of rewards.
WTF?
REALLY?
ON HOME PCs?
So then this is the forecast:
It is viable IF 3SPEAK stays as unknown as it is and dedicated Hive users host content that mainly ONLY HIVE USERS upload in order to try to earn rewards.
However,
If significant traffic comes to 3Speak then how the hell is that network going to be hosted on home PCs by dedicated Hive users?
That's why it can only work on an already established network like BitTorrent. But hey Hive severed that option when they ran from Tron and the boogie man Justin Sun.
The only way it can work is utilising that idea from another user (I forget his username) of a VIRTUAL NETWORK/SECOND LAYER where the data lives decentralised and the users hash the database. But to literally need to store it all on home PCs is going backwards with technology. How much data is on 3Speak already? I'm guessing under 1000TB. This is while 3Speak has daily active users of 400.
When growth is the ambition how can it be economical to store 1000s of terabytes of data... ON HOME PCs?