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1. howdy :niceshy: (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:43 JST howdy :niceshy:

   • Alexander
   @bunnierabbot hate to explain the whole joke because it's got a lot of layers, but the core of it is the :shiggy: reaction to the process required in Ubuntu to add a package repository. This is the software: https://www.varnish-software.com/developers/tutorials/installing-varnish-ubuntu/
   
   Everything is working fine right now, I've got Varnish installed and configured. Working on hosting my own videos :blobthanks: :0450:
   • howdy :niceshy: (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:39 JST howdy :niceshy:

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     @ademan @bunnierabbot @Moon not kill yet, but after reading that article I got the idea that it might be running on fumes right now! Have any interesting ideas for your replacement?
   • howdy :niceshy: (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:40 JST howdy :niceshy:

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     @Moon @bunnierabbot With the news of Odysee going into the mystery zone and :youtube: turning up the heat on the war against adblockers I wanted to just host my videos and recordings myself. I have a lot of content with few views: I’ve been doing daily bible readings that I upload to odysee and do project videos every so often. So the front end will probably end up being a static site generator thing that takes directories of media and produces a few pages/pagination

   • Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:40 JST Ademan

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     Wait odysee is kill? Shit maybe I should work on my replacement after all…

   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:41 JST Moon

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     • Alexander
     @harblinger @bunnierabbot what are you gonna do with it?
   • Moon (moon@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:42 JST Moon

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     @harblinger @bunnierabbot what are you doign
   • howdy :niceshy: (harblinger@shitposter.club)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:07:42 JST howdy :niceshy:

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     @Moon @bunnierabbot I still need to figure the front end out, but I have a 2TB (https://servarica.com/all-offers/) storage VPS running caddy (HTTP) and a decent Nerdrack VPS running caddy (HTTPS) and Varnish w/30GB cache and the storage VPS backend, hope things continue smoothly 🤞
   • Ademan (ademan@thebag.social)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Oct-2023 03:08:28 JST Ademan

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     Probably not too interesting but I described my plan here, it’d be nostr based:

     https://app.coracle.social/notes/nevent1qqsdappdt2fdefc3jee6jg9tgcjrx6g9edj80h53ymen79tzymw0p7spz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduq3yamnwvaz7tm0venxx6rpd9hzuur4vgqs6amnwvaz7tmwdaejumr0dsq3wamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwvd6hyun9de6zuenedyq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwdehhxarj9e3xzmnyqyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtn0wfskuem9wp5kcmpwv3jhvqgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszymhwden5te0danxvcmgv95kutnsw43z7qgjwaehxw309ac82unsd3jhqct89ejhxf8gg34

     IMHO this would require a distributed content delivery system. A “video” would be a json manifest contain a list of content ids (sha256(content)) for different chunks of video data, possibly in multiple resolutions, and a list of recommended content delivery servers.

     Content delivery servers would have a standard API to query download stats on content, to give people a fighting chance at estimating popularity of their content, and lightning integration to monetize downloading data, as well as upload and retaining it.

     As I see it, content delivery servers would have a variety of policies and serve over HTTP/HTTPS (don’t really need https since the client can verify the data by its hash upon download), but typically they would charge something small to upload, and use a LRU system to evict content, except those that have been prepaid to be retained (to a certain number of downloads and/or expiration). Stale data may enter a state where interested users can still download for a fee, and those fees may drive servers to retain them longer.

     As much as I’d hate to see ads creep in, content delivery servers could help people with no bitcoin view videos by serving ads before permitting clients to download non-ad chunks (clients could of course download and discard these ads, as adblockers essentially do on youtube today)

     I’d also like to integrate webtorrent but that has some severe privacy compromises.

     I guess conceptually these would be very much like relays, but for chunks of data identified by their contents. Nostr would point to these chunks of data by content id.

     Servers should probably also facilitate discovery of other servers by region, for instance. Admittedly it’s not exactly in their interest to tell you about other servers (unless owned by the same entity), so it couldn’t be the only discovery mechanism.

     Other nostr content besides just videos could be served this way of course.