Why can't protocols like IPFS or Odysee go mainstream? Would it be better to have a fully HTTP-based system that mimics Netflix and uses React?

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what's odyssey protocol?

becoming popular comes with its own set of challenges. so I'm actually nervous about that happening

IPFS is cool in theory

also NOSTR is a thing. talk about impending disaster

due to encryption matrix chat has a CSAM problem -- which may or may not be due to state actors literally trying to harm anyone who wants encryption for their communications. and the fact you can spool up and host your own home servers makes it somewhat censorship resistant

well... NOSTR is intended to be built to be censorship proof. people can host relays easily and there is many. I haven't seen CSAM on there yet. nobody really knows it exists like how people know matrix exists and damn the matrix problem is bad

NOSTR was built specifically so journalists could post stories and for those stories to be uncensorable by governments. but you apply this to CSAM sabotage eventually... and that's basically what happens when such great technology gets mainstream. they're attacked by opportunists. it's very hard

Well, answer to it is that HTTP is a pretty great protocol. There's not much reason to use other protocols instead. Decentralized is also just a buzz word like serverless. Everything in the end has a kinda origin, so what's the point about using other tech than HTTP? There are just not too much upsides to it. Decentralized is also overhead, duplication etc.

@jestdotty i'm trying IPFS now.

fundamentally I think governments should stop saying they need to use money or censorship to "catch" criminals

the fundamental problem with society is we keep buying this shit

money and communication are sacred things

catch criminals at the act of... oh I don't know. fucking kidnapping children? that's the actual crime. not them having money

if they fixate on "how dare criminals have money" then the crime is having money and they have free reign about who they mark as a criminal. instead they keep forcing this retarded philosophical idea because it helps governments control their people

you know shit's getting bad if governments are trying to control their people to such a degree. why the guilty conscience?! like a narcissistic abuser accusing you of cheating and snooping through all your messages in case you're not loyal. if you were a good partner you'd feel secure in your goodness. you are aware you are not being a good partner. that's why you like these tactics

@jestdotty IPFS so far - slow, nothing works. Added files, not retrievable etc. Half of content is "Hello world." from x... Why IPFS isn't used more is clear to me, you can't take it serious.

Will check Odysee.

@retoor I've tried to use IPFS a number of times but the UX and such leaves much to be desired. ended up never using it for anything

crypto has some cool ideas for this I've always been excited about but they aren't that user friendly again

for example you can cloud-host on random user's computers. talk about a cool fucking idea. I don't want Amazon snooping my shit -- you damned bet they do it and they're on top of it a CIA cutout

basically you pay someone some cents to host a shard of your files on their system. and hosters get ranked by their reliability as nodes. fuckyeah. talk about recycling old tech also. can just stick a bunch of old phones in a closet and make some money off them. those carbon nutters don't talk about that

@jestdotty It's a video website that uses the LBRY blockchain.

@aiodrix but where are the videos stored? The chain does only the indexing I think. Is it true that multiple people are actually hosting such nodes or in the end you're still always talking to the same server?

Actchually... Odyssey isn't the protocol, it's LBRY.
I have tried once both Odissey and the LBRY app, and overall didn't feel too bad, but at the end for videos I preferred the PeerTube approach instead.

@retoor They say that users can host their own videos, but in practice, I believe that all is centralized. I've tried several platforms that claim to be decentralized, but most are always slow and have little useful content. One day, I hope a platform like YouTube or Netflix will emerge where each user stores and streams own videos and earns rewards in crypto. To this day, I haven't seen this work out.

@aiodrix I think the only protocol kinda successful is torrent. Gnutella was cool too.

you lost me on react

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