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by api 2245 days ago
Here's a thought: podcasting.

Podcasting has the vibe of the early DIY web. It's largely independent and isn't "owned" by an oligopoly unlike social media. Indie podcasters sometimes struggle with distribution if they get popular. Lastly, it has a major vanishing content problem when old orphaned podcasts disappear from podcast hosting services but may still be interesting.

It would also be fairly easy to write a web-to-SAFE bridge server that allowed people to add podcasts hosted on the SAFE network to regular RSS podcast players. People could run this themselves or run open ones on the web, with the latter amounting to a community run CDN.

2 comments

I ‘know a guy‘ who decided to build a music platform for the network and podcasting would be an easy addition. ;)

Although a dedicated and native recording and podcast publish app would be better and that idea has rolled through my head a few times. Have a good idea on the branding and interface already. Excellent suggestion and reaffirming for sure.

Great suggestion. Podcasting would definitely be a great and feasible use case. Given that SAFE provides a perpetual web, it could very well be a killer app.