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My goal with #Plebs was to make it the PeerTube of #Nostr. I think I’ve accomplished that. But with major improvements, imho, by making it a static site that can easily be loaded locally and leveraging Blossom hosts to offload the content in a way that’s better than ActivityPub. Time will tell, but if video views on PeerTube are any indicator, I suspect Plebs will remain very niche. Though, I wish more people on Nostr would use it to post videos. I pumped a lot of β€œblood, sweat, and tears” in building it and I’d hate to see it go to waste and become abandonware. A truly censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform with Bitcoin tips via zaps to content creators without any middleman is gonna be huge when people finally wake up to it.
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Plebs is a censorship-resistant, decentralized video platform powered by the Nostr social protocol

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Great work! Really well put together... I think the only missing part is the marketing... I only came across it by accident when doom scrolling - and didn't see it on places like nostrapps.com or zapstore.dev? Also think you need to tell the creators what is better about it (for them) - zaps? decentralised? Whatever.. Maybe look for content creators using Peertube - offer to help repost their content or something... people like @Nick @ The Linux Experiment or @npub1sehl...fsgc
what you did does have a lot of potential, it's just that for me I feel that the problem I have in even trying to recommend it to content creators who do want more control of their content, is the barrier itself that even there to run a relay and server, I I like your app but the truth is that trying to run a relay or storage server without tutorials for people who are not very experienced is a huge barrier that they have to overcome.
Isn't it self-hostable? Peertube is a community project. If your goal is to send tips to a video, the road is long, because you have to find a video you like, so you need to have a lot of content or have your contacts post it, which is difficult. You changed videos kind three times, if I'm not mistaken, which didn't help.
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Agreed. Federation is just a more complicated system of censorship. And perhaps an even worse form than even on normie, corpo services as the FediBlock doesn’t even really question why someone’s instance is added and only assumes it must be β€œNazis”. It’s much harder for such level of censorship without context to happen on Nostr.
I'm a plebs.app maxi, this is going to be huge. Actually nostr is very well positioned for this use-case with being inherently social + blossom servers becoming very common these days. A way to monetize could be a service that provides extra bandwidth for popular podcasts around the release time when the load exceeds the blossom servers' capacity. Alternatively this task could be done in a crowdsourced way: allow anyone with bandwidth earn sats by providing the extra bandwidth, and you can take a cut for managing the connections. So many ideas and possibilities to explore. I'm planning to release one episode of a podcast for my local community in January to shill nostr, and see how ready people are for this kind of goodness.