[user101010]

I agree with your point about owning the LBRY address. The article kept referring to the people who value the name the most being the ones who eventually own the addresses, but that doesn't stop big enough freebooters from squating on address smaller creators with less funds need. I'm thinking of YouTube folks who may have to compete with large media firms without the advantage of an arbitration system. To add to that, the fact that address ownership isn't permanent also weakens the position of small creators.

I'm hopeful, though. I like the idea of a decentralized content platform.

[generalk]

> I'm hopeful, though. I like the idea of a decentralized > content platform.

We have one of those, the WWW.

What we need is a decentralized method for the social aspects: identity management, networking (following/liking, etc), etc. We had some of that with the early blogosphere stuff, but we largely let it slide into oblivion.

[user101010]

I suppose the Internet is a "content platform," but that's in the most basic sense of the term. I mean things like YouTube and Vessel that are trying to bring together all those things you mention. If anything, I wouldn't begin to consider a service to be a content platform unless it had those things.