Hello Salty Army, YouTube blessed Salty with another strike, so we will be in YouTube jail unitl 4/2/21. Please check out Odysee, Bitchute, and Rumble for videos. We will attempt to do our livestreams on Odysee at our regular times (Sun, Wed, and Fri at 5:30pm Pacific time). Livestreaming is new for them, so hopefully it runs relatively smoothly. If not, it may be a bit of a shorter show. Please be patient with us as we figure out our Plan B for livestreaming. We hope to avoid Dlive, but it will be our emergency back up.
Take Care, Mrs. Salty
There is no connection between crypto currency and serving videos. The only reason any platform, video sharing or not, floats its own crypto currency, is to create the illusion that they can make money they can't.
If this was something like mastodon, if the ledger was storing communications, then you could say that it exists to prevent anyone from retroactively editing their messages. But it would be pointless to story videos in a block chain, and that doesn't provide them any availability over torrents - in fact it would just make it more expensive to achieve that level of distribution.
You're also wrong to just leap out into the world making claims you don't understand, feeling all prim and superior to anyone who hasn't "proven you wrong" by your own judgment. If you don't know what you're talking about, there's no guarantee you're going to recognize that moment anyways.
(1) “There is no connection between crypto currency and serving videos”
A :: LBC is used to incentivize participation and in the case of Odysee used to stake videos to increase their visibility. Crypto Currency rewards are distributed through promotions for creators, viewership, and engagement (I’d assume this will taper off once the dedicated funds are depleted), and daily and achievement based rewards for users. In the hopefully not too distant future LBC will also be used to transact between uploaders and hosts for their services.
Videos are not stored in the blockchain directly. Instead, the blockchain in this case is used to store an index of available content and associated attributes such as cost, owner, and location on the network of hosts with a copy. If you take issue with this structure for delivering content then you kind of are taking issue with P2P generally since it’s effectively just a less ephemeral way to organize swarms and network peers.
I do absolutely agree that minting a token and then pumping it is bullshit and I have my concerns about Odysee as a platform along with LBRY as the underlying protocol (no decentralized management of the foundation as far as I am aware being a prime example) but that doesn’t change any of the information above.
(2) “If this was something like mastodon, if the ledger was storing communications...”
A :: I addressed this in the previous paragraphs, but I do want to point out that I don’t think that crypto in general or LBRY specifically have revolutionized anything. I do think that they’ve brought together a bunch of ideas that have existed for quite some time and implemented an incentive structure and internal payments system that might give them more longevity that something like a BitTorrent Sync, or whatever BitTorrent was calling those media packages. One of the biggest things they’re delivering is better marketing which is essential for a distributed or decentralized system that relies on a critical mass of participants (See: Why I Hate Leechers).
Oh, also. You clearly don’t understand Mastodon if you think communication data is stored on a blockchain. I’ve run Mastodon instances. The data lives on the local storage of the metal or VPS of the instance. That’s pretty fundamental. Mastodon and the fediverse are about portable identity and voluntary association of individuals and groups. Pretty basic and makes me question your understanding.
(3) “You're also wrong to just leap out into the world making claims you don't understand...”
A :: At this point that’s more a description of how you’re behaving. I’ve made no assumptions about your knowledge on the topic outside of you behaving like a petulant child. You’re the one who is assuming superiority with effectively no information. All that said, I’d love to hear a rebuttal. Maybe don’t resort to ad hominem this time. Tell me why I’m wrong.