[andyidsinga]

I've been digging around peer tube for a few days - a lot of cool stuff there.

I wonder if the barriers will largely be the costs of using it relative to existing centralized systems:

- uptime/accessibility over time of content : what how do users find content bookmarked two years ago if nodes are coming and going. Assuming there is a way to keep an updated bookmark list, what are the costs (effort, emotional etc) to the user to do that?

- costs of maintaining a node in the decentralized system. if my node maintains a catalog of 1000 or more videos what will be the operational costs (not just the storage and compute costs) to me of keeping this running.

These things are great to think of in context of of the recent HN post that discusses decentralized systems https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17361199

PS. I'm not saying that it's impossible to overcome those points - just that they're difficult and worth working through.

[nodja]

People pay for seedboxes all the time. If libtorrent adds webtorrent support I can see these seedboxes being repurposed to host webtorrent videos. As a seedbox owner you would just add your favorite channel's rss feed to the auto download.

[andyidsinga]

thanks for that - I'm a little embarrassed to say I didn't even know what a seedbox was until now.