The DTube team has always been focused on creating a real usable product before doing any fancy announcements.
After so many months of research, developement and testing, DTube 0.9 is upgrading the concept of decentralized social media.
In this article:
- Post from URL : you can now post videos and livestreams from a URL
- For curators: share a video from any platform on the web
- For creators: double your earnings with tokens and advertising
- New blockchain : Get a DTube account and try our brand new decentralized economy on the public testnet
- Vote on tags: tags now accounts in the tokenized monetization
- Promote: burn your DTC to rank up your posts
- Create your own DTube: in partnership with Steem Engine
- Search engine: Search, related videos and tags navigation is fully functional again
New Feature: Post a video from a URL
Starting today, DTube is making a drastic change by allowing any user to upload almost any existing video from the web.
Instead of forcing you to upload a video file, re-encoding it and sending it on DTube's IPFS nodes, we now allow you to simply paste in a link of a remote video to get it included in DTube's video catalogue.
The currently supported platforms are numerous: YouTube, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, LiveLeak, Vimeo, Dailymotion. This change can seem very counter-intuitive for a 'Decentralized Video Platform' at first glance, but it actually has too many pros to be ignored:
IPFS file upload remains the same
A big chunk of DTube's user-base cares about decentralized file storage. These users love us and support us, so we feel bad when we see complaints about queues for our IPFS uploader in our discord.
However, most of our users don't need anti-censorship features. These users are very often already using centralized video platforms. By allowing these users to offload some storage from us, we will actually have more space and less queues for whom it matters.
It becomes easier to publish on DTube now
Everyone reading this knows the pain of a new user on STEEM or DTube. A new user being able to try DTube without having to go through the pain of a full upload will increase users retention.
It works with livestreams
We disabled our own livestream feature a while back when we realized associated costs and maintenance required. If you put a YouTube live or Twitch stream link, you can now have it displayed and ranked in DTube.
Ads
Many centralized video platforms offer monetization via advertising services. As DTube is now compatible with these platforms, it indirectly enables our users to monetize their videos with ads if they want to.
Sharing also creates value
While STEEM has originally focused on original content, most likely thanks to the high percentage author rewards in the distribution mechanism. But we want DTube to be a place where anyone can feel welcome and participate, not only video creators.
@dtube will keep voting on original content
@dtube is a powerful account in the ecosystem, and it is our duty to use our stake to influence our users behaviors. We do not want DTube to become a site full of reposts, and we want to reward our real users. This is why our upvotes will keep going on original content, while we observe the changes in behavior associated with the new features.
Introducing a new economy focused on content curation
We are introducing the public testnet of a totally new blockchain codebase in this update. The DTube chain is strongly inspired from STEEM, but is actually a totally new codebase. It's open source and available on GitHub.
The Why
Our experience running a successful Decentralized Application (DApp) on the Steem blockchain and gathering feedbacks from our users gave us valuable insights on the limitations of this technology and on how to improve the current model.
Introducing DTube Coin
In our model, the token (DTC) that generates voting power is fully liquid and tradable, and the Voting Power never caps, even if you go inactive for five days or more!
DTube chain now powers DTube's content discovery
DTube 0.9 requires you to have a DTube account to have your videos listed in any content discovery mechanism (new/hot/trending/search/feed/notifications).
Long story short, we believe STEEM's rankings to be stale and easily manipulable (bidbots, curation guilds, etc).
The whole purpose of this new economy is to have better rankings and overall quality, so keeping the STEEM rankings would make little sense.
That means everyone is reset at 0 subs!
It's a harsh change, but it's easy enough to re-subscribe to your favorite content creators. It makes sense to have a separate subscribe system, you might like someone's blog or memes, but you might dislike his videos.
DTC monetization is instant and infinite
On STEEM, your videos can only generate rewards for 7 days. This discourages creators to go for the long term rewards. Not all video contents are made to become viral, think about documentaries or tutorials. These contents rely on long term monetization to be able to exist.
On DTube chain, monetization of contents is infinite through time, and the DTC rewards associated with a vote are distributed instantly.
100% curation !
The DTC is 100% distributed via "curation rewards". The way these rewards are calculated is slightly different from STEEM, taking into account the popularity of the content before the vote. For example, if @bob upvotes a content now, and @alice has already upvoted this content before. @alice will only earn curation rewards from @bob's vote if her vote was cast when the content was less popular than now.
Forced self-upvote
On DTube chain, you are forced to self-upvote your own content. It will not self-vote on STEEM of course.
You can do a very small vote if you wish, but then you would earn less curation rewards for your content.
You can now spend 100% of your VP in 1 vote
Be careful while using the VP of your DTube account. On your DTube account, you will spend your whole VP in one single vote if you at 100%. If you want a similar experience to steem, we recommend setting the default vote at 2% for your DTube account. If you want to visit DTube less regularly, 5-10% should be good.
New Feature! Voting on tags
Instead of creators having control over the tags of their videos, it's now curators who control them.
If you are logged in with a DTube account, you should discover a new button on the video page.
As this tagging feature is associated with your vote, you can only tag once per content.
The original uploader can also choose one tag, but more tags will have to come from different people.
This feature should create a lot of dynamism in the search engine and tags navigation, and create a new way to use voting power 'for good'.
Burn DTC to promote a video
Similarly to STEEM's promote feature, you will be able to burn your DTCs to promote your videos. The amount of burnt DTCs will increase the power of your self-vote, increase the position of your content in the rankings, as well as increase your future curation rewards for this content.
This feature has been tuned down a lot during the testnet, as the DTC is a testnet coin and virtually worthless.
Sending DTCs
You are able to transfer DTCs to any other account, either by going to the channel of the user, or by clicking the 'Gift' icon on any of his videos. Transactions are fully validated once included in a block, about 3 seconds.
Becoming a DTube leader
In the side-menu of DTube you will discover a new 'Leaders' page. This is the equivalent page of the witnesses for STEEM, except these leaders rule the DTube chain. To become a leader, you will need to run a node, and collect enough votes to reach the top X. X is currently set at 7 and will grow as time passes and real leaders show up. If you are interested, feel free to join our discord channel and send us message in the #chain-leaders room.
Get your own account from Steem
You should instantly spot the difference from before, but you can now login with a DTube account.
To get a DTube account, you need to:
- Login with steem
- A message will appear asking you to claim your dtube account
- Do the 3-step procedure
You will get 100 DTC
The DTC is the DTube Testnet Coin. Holding more of it increases your voting power and influence in the network. However there is no need to 'power it up'. We want everyone to be able to try our new economy during this public testnet, so everyone can get 100 DTC by doing the claim procedure and start generating voting power.
The search engine comes back
Since the shutdown of AskSteem.com, our search engine for DTube has basically been down. This meant that tag navigation, the related videos, and the search were all completly broken.
Starting from today, all contents posted on dtube chain will be included in our self-hosted elastic search engine. It should also work better and give out better results than before (especially for tag navigation).
What about STEEM then?
If you stopped reading the article here, you'd probably think DTube is doing a 'LINO'... We could have, but nope.
Interoperability
DTube 0.9 is compatible with both chains. As you publish a video, a vote, or comment, your action will be posted on both chains. The only removed part from steem is the content discovery.
You will earn both STEEM and DTC in parallel and your video will still show up on all other STEEM UIs as usual. You will also keep earning author rewards of course!
This is a unique feature for our DApp. Most other DApps seem to focus on using a single blockchain and a single model. The future is a multitude of blockchains (or other techs) with different features and properties, combined elegantly into powerful UIs.
STEEM brings in a lot of features (much more than dtube's new chain). And we need some of them, such as author rewards, a semi-stable coin, the staking mechanism, etc...
Empowering Steem-Engine tokens with ScotTube
A preview of what is to come very soon is available in the top-right menu. If you are a member of the PAL community, you can try using DTube with the PAL token. This will serve as a quick beta of this feature, the real pal-tube website will follow, as well as details on how to get a scot-tube with your own token for your own community. This mean you can not only earn STEEM and DTC with DTube 0.9, but also any steem-engine token with proof-of-brain distribution.
Steem Onboarding is limited up to 31st July 2019
The DTube chain is reserved and limited to Steemians until this fixed date. Until this date, only the @dtube account will be able to create accounts, in order to prevent malicious users from stealing popular steemian's names and impersonating them.
After the 31/07/2019, anyone will be able to create a DTube account for someone else by burning some DTCs, directly from the DTube UI.
This is why you absolutely need to claim your DTube username now, while no one else can, otherwise you risk losing your username and channel.
Deprecations
We are deprecating SteemConnect login, we recommend using private posting key or the keychain extension instead. We are also deprecating DTalk (the private message feature) and the live streaming feature. These experiments brought us valuable information on what needs to be done to make these features possible in the future. They are likely to come back in a different fashion sooner than later.
The road to mainnet (DTube 1.0)
Our team has redacted a complete whitepaper with every single detail you could ever need. If you think this article is a bit too light, feel free to read the full thing here
Another blog article will follow in the upcoming week. Explaining the complete details for the DTC token generation event.
We expect this update to come with it's share of bugs or annoyances. Please report any bug or suggestion, either in the comments or on our discord server.
As mentioned previously, 0.9 is a public testnet for DTube's chain. We estimate this period to last for about 1 to 2 months total, depending on how it goes. This is a unique chance for you to be able to try a new crypto game before the DTube Coin becomes tradable on markets, seize it!
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Glad to be involved in the upcoming changes. It was critical to me that you didn't leave steem so much as built additional functionality with your own curation mechanism that matched your business needs. I applaud this, and I'm looking forward to letting everyone get their own scottube still built on steem getting rewarded in DTC, Steem/SBD, and a variety of steem-engine tokens!
You're like the Keanu Reeves of Steem
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You're like the Kevinli of Dtube.
🤣🤣
nah keanu is cool.
I agree! lol!
LOL good one :)
Meme it! =)
Keanu is the best!!!
Wait a minute, dtube is leaving steem in a very fundamental way: going forward dtube users will not need a steem account and the token economics will not be mediated by the steem blockchain...I would say that counts as leaving. You can retain the functionality of posting links to steem (which is fine) but how is that going to contribute in creating demand for steem?
This is Dlive all over again (although a soft version of it). Think about it, they had a huge delegation of steem that was used to cover their costs and now they will operate with their own blockchain. I for one will not applaud this. In fact I am going to stop voting on any content that is posted to dtube so that no beneficiary rewards accrue in dtube's favor.
Glad I not the only one who was thinking this. It a great idea but I confused on how other than the token support its good for steem. The token and accounts are in its own chain not even a sidechain.
And while it allows for Steem and other token to be monetized using scotube, dtube itseld doesn't need steem?
I love to see another prospective of this.
It is easier to onboard people onto the Dtube chain. Those users can then eventually make steem accounts with the steem earned.
It's also just better for users, which is never a bad thing.
How does a sidechain help steem anyway, other than make steem power needed for bandwidth.
They don't earn steem? They earn dtube coins....
You mean sell dtube for steem-hopefully... If anything they'll sell for Usd,btc or eth....
It great for users(hopefully) but it that all it good for steem?
The sidechain helps bridge steem accounts keeping one account. Allows for it to scale vs mainchian. It helps give steem more use and in the ecosystem more. And the RC thing is a big if steem is going to do the backend as a steem app platform...
Dtube has large stake (delegation), so they can convert RC into free accounts and sell for DTC (which they have said they might do).
So they become an steem account seller?
I guess that cool but that a pretty limited thing.
Delegation that were given to encourage steem users to use a decetralized video network are now used to create a steem accounts. Well I guess I can't ask for more. I assume this was a better than dlive move as it was more open?
While I don't doubt what you're saying is true, it's not obvious to me that creating OC will drive Steem involvement. I am still digesting the massive update, so expect I am simply not grasping this. Please forgive my slowness, but also note that I am probably not alone, so be patient with we tards.
There are two chains, three tokens (four if you count SBD) and a raft of great advances involved in this update. For those of us that have to take off our shoes to count past ten, time and gentle explication will likely be necessary to get us up to speed.
How is Steem required to deliver author rewards in DTC and PAL?
I believe you are not ill-intentioned right now, but what's stopping you from splitting apart in the future?
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Nothing. Just like nothing is stopping you from powering down and leaving. Bloke wants to keep his business afloat so he's making sure it delivers his vision of what users need.
I didn't condemn you at all. I'm sorry if my comment came across that way.
What I wanted to know is what dependencies remaining on Steem chain that would require additional development efforts if Dtube were to totally split apart from Steem.
#sbi-skip
Speaking of complete jokes, I have a question for you. I too yelled at the clouds for quite some time about this vote selling nonsense and by now I think most can see the damage it has done, especially since so many new developments seemingly want to distance themselves as far away as possible from the madness happening here.
I'm also the jackass who sat here holding SP and curating manually for nearly three years, while so many others got paid to look away.
I don't create video content, but I still want to to be able to support some of these Dtubers from time to time in the form of votes. I have 26000SP. Will I need $10000 worth of these Dtube tokens now to be able to offer any meaningful support to these creators if I see something I like? I'm sorry if it says something about it up there in the post but goddamn that was a long read and the stupid cat was sitting here meowing the whole time.
What's in it for me? As a curator.
From the whitepaper. Note that staking tokens is not needed, VP never stops growing and the 100% curation rewards.
Also, almost all dtube posts will still be posted on steem, so you can still reward them with SP.
Excellent. As you'd know, I certainly can't get around to all of those videos, plus there's some music and reading to do here as well. It's a nice gesture to include the sporadic curator in the mix.
That's far better than attempting to create a complete community from scratch. Kudos man.
How are we flagged as a creator for airdrop? By using it now or just a sign up later? If I do post content here on testnet will I still receive steem now? I'm a bit confused when I look at the site/read this post.
Why are you using all these bid-bots to promote your post then if you are so against them?
I understand where you are coming from. In my opinion the content discovery is more a UI issue, for example on steeve.app both the search and the content ranking is different to what you get on steemit.
The fact is that you are going to use another blockchain and therfore the economics of Dtube will be disconnected from steem. Technically dtube will have the same connection to this blockchain as other video delivery platforms... just another link. Users will need an account on your native blockchain and steem will not even be used for bandwith.
steeve is centralized.
That is not the point. The point is that the ranking of content is entirely up to the user interface and there is no need for another blockchain to acomplish this. Besides, the content displayed on steeve is the same as the one shown on other steem interfaces so your comment doesn't make sense.
No, steem's rankings are built into the blockchain. Any rankings not built into the blockchain are not using the decentralized consensus and deviating hiding part of the blockchain from the user.
I am sorry that you feel offended, your motivations might be different from the lino guys but the end result is the same: your project will run on it's own blockchain. I was hoping for dtube to be a big part of this ecosystem but now I feel disapointed.
It runs on both blockchains in parallel, one can backup the other at any time. Using Steem's trending / hot again would be really easy, I just don't expect to want to use it again. But otherwise there's not one blockchain coded to be 'superior' to the other in the UI, it's just the vote a tag thingy I cant do on STEEM atm, and it would just require adding a 'memo' into the vote operation basically.
Forgive me for being aprehensive but you can understand that after the Dlive fiasco I am not inclined to trust blindly anything that resembles that move. I hope things work out, have a good day man.
You wrote this post didn't you? Nice write up. Best of luck to DTube.
thanks for your special comment
Is incredible!!. I have all afternoon trying to upload a video in dtube and I could not do it. I'll upload it to youtube and then I'll post the link. I have tried to support dtube as a video platform but undoubtedly something is not going well when the technology is above the product itself. Technology is a service and the more imperceptible the better. Regards
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I'm still working on reading through the full OP, but when I saw this, I had to comment.
This is brilliant. The adpocalypse has financially destroyed many good and substantive creators. By enabling them to link to their content on politically manipulative platforms, they can monetize that content on Dtube, and the sanctions on their content elsewhere are moot. As long as their content is not deleted on the original platform, it can be searched, commented, upvoted, and monetized on Dtube.
I feel that proper marketing of this feature, particularly to creators that are being suppressed, censored, and demonetized, can both make Dtube rapidly become a standard addition to other platforms attempting to control social narrative for all content creators concerned about those manipulative degradations, but also make Dtube a target for those tools Big Tech has to harm platforms. ISPs, Domain registrars, payment processors, and more have all been deployed against platforms themselves to enable censorship and economic suppression.
Please give this latter problem close attention, so that you can be prepared with means of resolving such assaults by the Big Tech alliance intent on total narrative control. I recommend studying The Pirate Bay, which has demonstrated decades long resilience to such incessant attack.
Now, I'll go back to reading the OP.
Thanks!
just made new dtube video and logged in to both
Glad to see these updates of Dtube and the fact that the team is hard at work to innovate and improve the app to better serve your users.
We'll be claiming our Dtube accounts and see for ourselves the improvements that comes with running on your own chain.
A working decentralized video sharing platform sounds mighty interesting to us at @coingecko. We'll be looking forward to Dtube 1.0 launch.
Amazing new development which fixes all the problems of the old DTube. Well done!
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Publishing videos hosted elsewhere is a great feature.
I was able to get cross-publication on d.tube and STEEM working after some doing. So that's good.
I don't understand the need to create a completely separate blockchain. It seems like this could have been done on STEEM with just your SCOT.
How did you get the cross-publication to work?
It did not work for me.
It took a couple tries.
After claiming my new dtube account, I ended up a bit stuck. I got it working by logging out of steem and dtube, logging into steem-on-dtude through keychain and logging into dtube-on-dtube with my dtube private posting key.
Once I was logged into both accounts separately, the video cross-posting worked
Well that’s definitely not what I’d call simple. User-friendliness hasn’t always been a strength for DTube necessarily. I always find myself having to log in and out. It’s pretty annoying.
Thanks for the info!
Yep. I made a walkthrough video:
https://steempeak.com/dtube/@nealmcspadden/ijru4oosh50
I cleared my cache and logged out of both and back in and still no cross publication. Any other ideas on how to get it to work?
how do you mean logged in seperately? i was logged into both accounts and it did not work for me. do you use two different browsers?
Watch the video:
https://steempeak.com/dtube/@nealmcspadden/ijru4oosh50
Thanks!!
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Publishing videos hosted elsewhere might be useful sometimes, but it mostly defeats the purpose of DTube, which is to be an independent video site. Another copy, in case YouTube goes down, or censors your video. This is just hotlinking (embedding), encourages plagiarism and copyright infringement, and brings no discernible upgrade to the users.
What about people who have been deplatformed on YouTube, and need somewhere to upload a video? This feature does nothing for them. It's just a YouTube support function. It's something which was available even on MySpace, 20 years ago.
This isn't all things to all people. The IPFS uploads are worth doing if you are deplatformed.
For the vast majority, using YouTube as a host and potential lead in to d.tube and steem is fine.
look at the white paper if you wanna know more: https://token.d.tube/whitepaper.pdf
wow, lot to take in. really excited for this news. i hope you become the #1 best IPFS and video host on the steem blockchain beating all others because you have first mover advantage. i'll be doubling down on my dtube efforts!
Hot damn that is ALOT of legitimately useful functionality. Glad to be a molecule sized part of this awesome community. Love the effort to make "ranking" and curation more DTube centric, as Steemit's is irreparably broken. All in.
This seems good. Had alot of trouble in my early days on dtube. Upgrade good
Another Coin. Now I got to learn how to be a video maker!
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or a curator mate !
That's excellent!
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It sounds really interesting @dtube and it is good to know that your project is working very well..!!
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Wow, nicely done @heimindanger. D.Tube on next level.
I wish i had read this before I started using it. I gave all my VP to the first video I watched :)
Thanks for this.
It may be me but I still find steemit and DTube a bit complicated. Hopefully with time I'll understand better.
There is no better time to get platforms like DTube rolling, youtube is becoming a bit harsh on creators.
Will DTube stay decentralized or can it be taken down by interest groups or governments?
Cheers,
B
Hi, DTube mission is to offer a fully decentralized and open source video platform and this is not gonna change!
This is the best update ever in the history of dtube. I'm very excited about it. Go dtube go ! It's really the best app in all steem blockchain. Dtube is feeding families. Dtube is freedom of speech. Dtube is decentralization. Dtube is great.
All this people here said the truth about dtube. That's great. ☺
Nice updates!
Just tried it worked perfect. Awesome cross posting function, hopefully can bring more popular vloggers on DTube and Steem!
Couldn’t get the cross-posting to work for me. Did you have to do something special?
did you log in successfully? Normally you just post the link on youtube or other, then should be automatically loading and showing the description. What’s the error for you?
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Yes I am logged in. Even managed to get a video posted just fine by using a YouTube link. However once it was live it never showed up on my Steemit blog. Although I connected my account already.
I have been told by another user that logging out and back in seems to solve the issue. Just sucks bc I already posted the video and didn’t want to have to go back and edit the post again.
Hm i never had such before. Afaik if you don’t log out steem account on dtube, it will be autopost. I hope your problem gets solved soon!
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I’ll get it figured out with a few more trials.
Love it too!
Love it love it love it.
❤
I just have a couple of questions.
So from today after claiming our username the accounts won't be resetting anymore right?
From today and when it comes to the @dtube curation team. If we start uploading our original videos using the new Dtube will they be curated by the Dtube curation team?
Even if the videos are originally created for Dtube would You guys prefer to have that videos uploaded on Youtube (for example) and shared in the platform using the link or uploaded directly using IPFS on the platform?
This is related with the previous point. If an original Video is uploaded on other platform and shared with the link on the new Dtube will it get Curated by the Dtube Team or videos shared with a link will not get curated by Dtube?
Thank You guys ❤
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Hey Sergio,
4.No, we only curate original content, not shares
Thanks for the support!
So that means that actually we won't be staking tokens now as it says in the post !
And when it comes to the curation when you refer to original content You mean You will only curate videos uploaded directly with the IPFS???
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Hey Sergio,
At this time users are being given 100 tokens so we can see how the system performs under load and so users can become familiar with the functions of the chain.
When we migrate over to a live chain tokens will be airdropped to users. Until then these are just for testing (as it was on new.d.tube) which you're familiar.
The curation team will not be limiting themselves to just IPFS content. The previous rules around curation still apply (it has to be your content etc.)
Awesome. Love that ❤ so probably will be saving You guys some money by uploading it only on Youtube and sharing the link eheheeh
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I'm now confused about something I thought I understood from the OP. Here you state that using another platform to host the video will enable advertising rewards, but I thought Dtube would be allowing content uploaded here to generate advertising rewards. I highly recommend the latter course, even if Dtube itself doesn't advertise directly. Demonetization on other platforms is heinous, and enabling content demonetized elsewhere to be monetized here would parry such blows to content creators, indeed, it would cause Dtube to be a highly desirable monetization mechanism for creators that only deletion of content on other platforms could counter.
I strongly urge you to enable content to be monetized on Dtube, as I can think of nothing that would drive adoption more strongly, as well as fight the Big Tech censorship and narrative control being effected today.
Does this mean we will need to reclaim accounts, or simply that the past will no longer affect the account?
Thanks!
Who is "macron"? It seem like he works for/represents DTube?
"You only need to claim your account once on the DTube Chain, it will remain yours. However when we launch the token out of beta, you will have your DTube account reset"
That seems totally contradictory, like almost everything in this post.
I miss YouTube. It works so much better, despite all its glitches. Thing with YT is, I'm limited to 200 views per video nowadays, because they don't like my opinions. I used to get 3000+ 10 years ago, before I had any subscribers. 8 years ago, I started notifying the world about Bitcoin. 6 years ago, I predicted the current price chart with almost perfect accuracy (prices, dates, bull and bear markets, tops, bottoms, everything). My channel got shadowbanned ever since. I went from viral growth to completely unknown (and nearly unsearchable) on a dime.
All I want is somewhere I can upload and watch videos. I don't want to "double my tokens", or become part of a Paltoken.net community, or whatever. Why isn't there anywhere vloggers can reliably upload videos, and not be censored for talking about Liberty, peace, and truth?
I hope Dtube will be that place. To be optimally useful they'll have to grow a lot, and this is why I recommend they enable Dtube creators to monetize their content, and particularly content demonetized elsewhere, because this will cause folks demonetized and restricted as you have been to flock to Dtube, and that will draw their audiences.
I completely relate to your values, but even so I don't reckon getting paid for your work is gonna hurt you, is it?
I went to Dtube and tried to 'claim my account' but only found the login button. Is there some claim button or process?
If they are hosting it, it costs them money. If you don't need to host with them, then there is no need to waste their storage space. They also need to delete old videos stored with them after a certain amount of time.
I kind of jumped the gun with this questions.... because i haven't seen that the new Dtube is now totally upgraded to the 0.9 version eheheheh
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The token on the testnet will be reset to 0 before the mainnet?
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C'est vraiment genial. ;)
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This is really really fantastic and for what I am waiting from Dtube. Dtube has alot of potential and with constant development really grabs a high place among DApps. Thanks for the developers for giving us chance to express ourselves and making this place so awesome.
Now we can invite musicians and artists as their videos can earn for infinite time 😄. That's what every one needed .
And the best thing is steem trending or bidbots 🤪 will not reflect on dtube
Subscribers are reseting to zero, those who follow you on steem are not followers on dtube
Only if your video is great then only you will get good rewards
I love you, have my babies.
hahahahahahaha
And they'd so cute toooooo ;p
I'm so stoked to see this man! I haven't been posting a lot but now that you've made these adjustments, I'm coming back to Dtube full-time!
Thanks for the heads up man! Appreciate you continuing to tweak and improve the platform, it looks WAY better than when I first used it in 2017/2018
Amen to that. I've been so wearied by the stuff I see on Trending with the vote selling / vote buying circlejerks. We need a new era on this platform.
I'm all aboard the @Dtube train! Just got my green screen, mic and plan on cranking out some creative content once I finish up some things for Steemflagrewards. A few ideas:
I know it's pretty ambition. I'll probably start with one and work on my skills for there. I see Dtube as an excellent opportunity for me to incubate my video production talent. I have the creativity. Just need a bit more procedural knowledge.
I did recently acquire some server hardware so may also be interested in running node as well. Going to look into this more when I get home. Really cool.
looking forward to that pretty much
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aah i see that we can only claim when using PC @heimindanger? i tried via android, did not see how to claim it, now am on PC, its on my screen
cool
excited to see how this will turn up
yyyyeessssh! just saw we need to make new key, with tons of permissions to follow. now the nervousness begins lol
I’m glad you guys are staying around!
There are some great news and surprise in the new system, great stuffs.
Would be also great to rewards DTC to IPFS pinning nodes too, maybe thru a system where they can register as official nodes?
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At first I was excited about the platform and started uploading the video files I still had after YouTube terminated my channel, then later I noticed that older videos stop to play, especially after the third week. I thought it was just for some of the videos then realized it's the same for all videos, so I stopped and rarely uploading directly here. Had to buy a subscription with jetpack, my site is WordPress, so instead of making some money I'm now paying money.
Wonder if this could ever be resolved or it's just my videos facing this issue.
When YouTube terminated my channel:
https://www.syrianews.cc/youtube-channel-deleted/
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In the past we didn't have enough storage to host videos more than 3 months unfortunately on IPFS.. Now you can chose to post a link from a URL or still upload to IPFS (or both ;)
And, we are working on improving data hosting length of course
So how long will the videos be hosted now? Uploading not sharing the link.
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I'm trying to go through the account claiming process. The first step seemed to work fine, and it looks like it updated my steem account with the public key, but the verification step, which says it can take up to two minutes, has been spinning in a "please wait" state for half an hour. It's not clear to me what I should do next. Keep waiting? Try to start again?
Scroll up few messages above, I was in the same boat as you're now.
Give it some time, let's say an hour, and try login using your private d.tube key you've got from the claim process.
If that doesn't help, try clearing your cache and try again, or different browser as in my case.
I'm not sure if it was the browser issue though.
Thanks. I did that and everything appears to be working.
Can't wait till tomorrow , Glad to be a tester of it now finally I'm so excited to used it 😊, indeed it's a great move our dear @heimindanger , so happy to know that @dtube will still be a part of Steem Blockchain , that's what Important is for all of us :)
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Excellent update...
Great job @heimindanger & team!
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this is indeed a game changer ... i'm so excited !!!
So much awesomeness. What a great time to come back from hibernation. Time to dust off the recording gear...
Thank you so much for the return of the search functionality, that was kind of a deal breaker.
regards
This is a great update, the truth is that if it brought a lot of trouble loading the video (it was impossible to publish daily) since one day it was fine and the next day no longer, introducing this load function through a link seems great and also give us the opportunity to have power within Dtube, I can not believe it ...
Thank you very much Dtube 😍
Wow! That's really great announcement!! Amazing updates!!!
I am really very exciting with this new upgrade system.
A lot of the concerns you mention make a lot of sense. And I'm glad to see you've learned from the mistakes of another dApp! You made a very wise decision here. And you've found ways to make it work, it seems.
My one suggestion: see if you can develop an app that would allow people to set up their own IPFS node easily. If water there's a ton of people who would love a simple interface that is easy to implement and use. Set up a box in a basement with a TB or three of storage, point it at your site with a simple app, assign a folder directory, and let it go. I bet you could get a decent number of people who would gladly step up, especially if it's a lightweight app.
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Yeah, like... it's actually really easy to set on up, if you can follow the guidelines on the IPFS website. This issue is those guidelines are 20 pages long, with 90% of the content not being relevant to setting up a simple node. For Mac at least, there was basically an all-in-one plugin that handled IPFS management.
Right, and a simplified setup guide or a one-step app would work wonders to spur engagement. Hell, I've got a desktop set aside to do just that, once I can get it figured out.
Yeah, I have a node running on an iMac sitting next to me. It's where i still host my own IPFS video, hence why it can still be found on the site. The setup could definitely be easier, but more importantly better explained.
You can see the direct IPFS link to my video here.
Hear hear!
This!
Will you be including bitchute url's in this? (please). I just tried one, it says invalid url.
We want to support every type of content, even torrent in the future. Keep posted!
I definitely agree, Bitchute needs to be included as it's become the prime hub for those exiled by YouTube. It's also the largest decentralized video site by far. Support for it is a must!
Bitchute has decentralized storage? What does it use to host its videos?
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It uses torrenting to share content with users. It's technically only semi-decentralized as they offer a smoother service that comes from them directly, but you can also enable torrenting-only mode, and also host magnet links to videos yourself.
We started with main classic urls for this v0.9 update, but will be regularly adding new urls support, thanks to your feedback
So, DTC I earn now will be tradeable and hold value in the future? There won't be any resets or anything?
Edit: Nvm, I got my answer thanks to @chesatochi's question. ;)
Oh nice, I'll try to keep being active then. :)
Freaking awesome updates!! Congrats to the release :) Finally!
I am so excited where this huge change will lead to!
Peace!
If you could get LBRY web links from their pubic faceing Spee.ch site to work that would be very handy! RIght now, I get an error saying that the video URL isn't valid.
So far, all url aren't working for all websites, but in a near future we'll be working on it for sure.
v0.9 is just a beginning
I know. These things take a lot of work. LBRY is a platform I’ve been agitating for, for quite some time. It’s decentralized, censorship resistant, works well and has very active development so far as I can tell. They’re also very active communication, regularly responding to my own comments.
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I totally understand. Overall, this new patch has me excited for DTube for the first time in months. Looking forward to the new developments and hope that LBRY becomes integrated soon!
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THANK GOD FOR THAT! I was SURE my account had been hacked or cloned!
Lost sleep over it! Mostly about losing all my subscribers, but; if EVERYONE has now been reset to a level playing field - then I'm ok with it.
THANKS for letting us know!
So for you, it isn't about reaching people and gaining connections, it's about competing against other content-creators for the most number of subscribers?
Not at all! - For ME; it's about sharing content I spend a LOT of time creating, to hopefully have people enjoy it! BUT: The small number of subscribers I DID have - Dtube wiped out! And THAT is not good business.
Radical!
I can not login to my dtube account. How to login my dtube? plz help me.
Let the Dtube Revolution begin
Wow
Just in time. I was going to add D.tube to my abandoned projects from Steem folder. But now I'm thinking about uploading a new video to D.tube.
Great work!
This is fucking great, amazing, cool, awesome, insane!
but my hands are tied.
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Really exciting update. A lot of people have been waiting for something as easy and reliable as this.
This could be one, if not the, most beneficial and progressive expansions ever.
I am speculating a huge amount of mass adoption. It's only upwards from here. Really happy
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Awesome. We’ll see how it goes tonight. Loving the claimed tokens, tho w/o value...yet. Thanks!