Op's question reads like the common consulting client demand of "make me a billion dollars without me understanding anything" but it is an interesting question and I think you're right here suggesting webtorrent as a place to start. I can't find it now but I remember someone using webtorrent and maybe dnscoin or something to make a website that would exist as long as someone is looking at it. It was a fun demo. It was a really simple website and they made an analogy to the "A tree falls in the forest" parable.
The problem here would be defining the constraints. TikTok like video does mean you aren't going for long form and it's not a huge deal to do UHD or whatever. So you figure out the bounds of the transfer and scale and then do the math to figure out how to take the singular viewer thing and layer in seeding three(?) videos partially for every single viewer.
So a viewer watching a video only needs to watch once and repeat but they are also given chunks of two other videos to stream. I'd look at flocking algorithms maybe to test out how to design something like this. But I'm also an idiot.
I think there's something to that. I might try to make a proof for it at some point. I... do not want to run a social media platform or work on one. That sounds like a nightmare, but I think something like that might be not just possible but inevitable.
You could monetize it by having people pay for seeds and storage for their videos. You could make a marketplace that pays people to seed videos and they could choose what videos to seed so they don't seed stuff they don't care for. I dunno, it almost sounds like a media sharing protocol that should already exist. Does this already exist?
The problem here would be defining the constraints. TikTok like video does mean you aren't going for long form and it's not a huge deal to do UHD or whatever. So you figure out the bounds of the transfer and scale and then do the math to figure out how to take the singular viewer thing and layer in seeding three(?) videos partially for every single viewer.
So a viewer watching a video only needs to watch once and repeat but they are also given chunks of two other videos to stream. I'd look at flocking algorithms maybe to test out how to design something like this. But I'm also an idiot.
I think there's something to that. I might try to make a proof for it at some point. I... do not want to run a social media platform or work on one. That sounds like a nightmare, but I think something like that might be not just possible but inevitable.
You could monetize it by having people pay for seeds and storage for their videos. You could make a marketplace that pays people to seed videos and they could choose what videos to seed so they don't seed stuff they don't care for. I dunno, it almost sounds like a media sharing protocol that should already exist. Does this already exist?