Kevin
@esherick
Who's building the decentralized video sharing protocol + platform? Twitter is to Farcaster + Warpcast/Supercast/etc as Youtube is to ???
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Kevin
@esherick
Like it's crazy that Youtube has such unilateral control over our content and its distribution Generally it feels like a pretty great product to me, so the competitive benefits of disrupting the monopoly feel less salient than with something like twitter, but the introduction of real competition might reveal to us things we didn't even know we were missing out on. And the concerns for varying degrees of censorship on Youtube and platforms of its kind are real
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androidsixteen
@androidsixteen.eth
> the introduction of real competition might reveal to us things we didn't even know we were missing out on Anything specific you have in mind? Censorship resistance is an obvious need, but demand-side of the marketplace will not show up for downside risk — they’ll need a better product to walk thru the door
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Kevin
@esherick
My idea in saying it might reveal things we didn't know we were missing out on is that I don't know what they would be because they would be novel, creative features that the platforms would be compelled by competition to mine for. Things like autoplay was for youtube, or like frames here on FC. But simple ideas like more advanced search capabilities, search by transcript, better creator analytics—really any feature that would be desirable to add to youtube, having competition will spur the development thereof Mostly agreed re: downside risk but isn't that a large part of why so many of us are here on FC? It's why I joined in 2022. And more than just censorship resistance, there's a positive vision of owning one's own content that I think would speak to the content creators and create a draw to such a platform. And where the content goes the users will follow
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