Introducing DTube: a decentralized video platform using STEEM and IPFS

in #video7 years ago (edited)

Dear STEEM community,

I am really excited to finally bring this project to the public. Introducing...



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OMFG YES!!!!!

I was super excited about "SteemQ" which turned out to be a big nothing. I am very excited to say I will be posting my YouTube videos on DTUBE!

This is great news, and perfect timing with the massive Google censorship occurring.

Thank you very much, I am happy to re-steem and upvote. I will try uploading some films this weekend on there.

xD

Titus...I've entered my key 4 times and get error message!!! Too excited to not have this work! Arghhhhhh

it really looks great and interesting, and looks like youtube but more easy and awsome.
i will take the ride with you in that.

looks like a nice growth !

btw good movieclip :)

  1. Why can't I upload .avi files? I successfully uploaded 3 .mp4 files without any problem but any .avi files refuse to upload.
  2. How do I delete a video?

mrtracy

Hmmm.. IPFS + blockchain. I think you cannot delete your video file anymore.

Did people abandon the Steem Q project?

WOW! I totally agree!!

Is it safe to use our Steemit credentials during sign up?

Use your private posting key. Your account funds are not in any risk even if someone would log in with them.

Thanks, I have figured it out, and have been posting.

Me jumping out of my seat and doing that in the office after see this post!

This is amazing! Upvotes and resteemed.

Wow a hell of a lot of work went in to this project - don't forget to show your appreciation.

Hi @heimindanger ! I love this dtube.video idea but for some reason I can't login to dtube.video using my chrome-like browser or any other browser for that matter. I correctly used my private key as per the instructions, but when I click to login it just sits there. It doesn't log me in & it doesn't say I have an error. Help would be greatly appreciated! Thank You!

kekking777\ I have similar problem, tried on two browsers -- entered name posting key and ... get message "wrong posting key" -- though it is the right one taken from my Steemit account as per instructions. Also hoping for solution -- and would very much appreciate help!

Very excited about this wonderful new DTube platform -- and appreciate all the talent and effort that has gone into creating it it!

@heimindanger : Can someone please give me an answer? It's been well past 24 hours....

How do you decline payouts when posting a dtube video?

I get all the way to step 3 and I cannot submit my videos! who's dick do I gatta suck to get my video on dtube?

Lolz, well I just uploaded the files but maybe the process has changed lolz.

you're spot on, and I will do the same -- posting my YouTube vids on D.Tube, that is (except for some total-garbage clips not worth watching...). Unlike YouTube, I am not about running up enormous amounts of user watch time as a business model (which is, stealing people their valuable time, even for stuff that's a time-waster). Just saying :)

Anyway, I am as excited about D.Tube as you fellow-Steemians, and will gladly try and kick start it with uploading supporting content. We need to get this off the ground smoothly...

May we upload our Youtube videos to DTube?

Dude. How to do for change the name in the channel DTUBE. Regards from argentina.

it can hurt your testis .......my be he is hurted who knows ...lol..

unable to upload a single video to d.tube always give error

Hola, que tipo de contenido se puede subir a Dtube ?, También se pueden subir películas ?... :O :O

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Lolz, you can do that?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

I swear I was thinking about how many movies will be on this thing lol... @heimindanger... I LOVE YOU FOR THIS. THIS IS REALLY AMAZING MAN.

Quick browsing turned up The Matrix and The Dark Knight on DTube.

I think the Matrix belongs there. Philosophically speaking.

Does this happen regularly though? Dtube could become the place for sharing pirated material, could you end up in trouble if that happens?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

hahaha! that's true. Thanks for creating such a great platform @heimindanger ... ps, is your name what I think it is ?? lolz

It may not be that simple, the pirate bay hosted no movies either and I'm sure we all know what happened there. If the vast majority of content is original I would hope that will cover you, especially if you make no money from the dodgy content.

I hope they let you code more platforms for us Steemers if you happen to go that route ;) And you can never be sure, law can be complicated, specially if you're taking money away from the big boys.

Dude!! We'll come free you no problem!

Exactly right. You can, but you probably (definitely?) shouldn't.

No fuck that. I hope the admin or moderators or WHOEVER the fuck runs the show doesn't allow this place to become some pirate bay and dump for THIEVES to put copyrighted content.
Actually, where can I read up on copyright for dtube? We do not want this to be a mess, if we respect the platform...it will work.

lol good luck with that!

You can now also publish Viewly videos to your Steemit blog.

Viewly charges 0% in fees.

Do you think Viewly has higher potential than DTube and why?
Most likely one with better UI will prevail.

To my knowledge Dtube uses Steemit reward integration while Viewly doesn't. We should support the one that gives more value to Steem Power holders (more places to use it)

Both use Steemit rewards. I have published a video on Viewly and it appeared on my blog as a normal post. The same happens with Dtube.

But can you actually vote on Viewly like in DTube?

Not sure, I think their platform is still in the making.

Diversification doesn't seem to be a bad idea in general. It may be a good idea to simply post to both... or would that simply just spam your vid posts?

hmmmmm...
just use what seems to be the better product at hand -- let the free market decide!!!

Viewly Is the future of videos in steemit!! @furion

yeah but its not in youtube format :( site.

@kuyajhaymo, please don't spam the same comment multiple times on the same post!

 7 years ago (edited) Reveal Comment

Hi heimindanger my name is Dan Dicks and I run an independent media outlet called Press For Truth (recently hit hard by Youtube) I would love to interview you about this awesome creation of yours! If you're available tomorrow that would be great but either way if you're up for it please message me at [email protected] and hopefully we can set something up!
Thanks!

Dan

Support Dan to keep bringing truthful reporting. Look forward to this interview.

Thanks @Pressfortruth, you are the reason I found this great platform, DTube, and @heimindanger. Keep up the great work both of you! I hope all the best for both of you.

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

hi heimindanger, our company is setting up a complete ipfs cluster in China, could you email me [email protected] ,hope we can work together. thanks

12 hours 1800 views and 223 comments later ....

Normies get switched off when you put things like decentralised, STEEM and IPFS in the subject title. Concentrate on what it offers them - the user experience is what's important, not how it's done.

At the moment it offers more for creators than viewers, and that's only because they get paid. I've suggested some user end fixes in another reply here.

The main reason people will go to it is because content creators they like have uploaded on it. I've been plugging it today, to:

Styxhexenhammer666
Angry Pepe KNN network
Sargon of Akkad
Iconoclast
Black Pidgeon Speaks

Previously, I've also mention to Lauren Southern to get on to Steemit so I guess I'll msg Rebel media later with the DT message.

Please support my efforts and let your favourite content creators know that you want to see them get paid and that DT/Steemit could be the combination they are looking for, and that they would be supporting the work of taking decentralization and control away from legacy webapps

Any thumbs up for the work I've been doing promoting this (including spending my steemits on promotion) would be appreciated.

Cheers - Smallism.org

You are doing good work on this front for sure! I would like to know how successful you are with this venture.

Thank you - we will know when we see the mass migration and famous names on the 'newly uploaded' list.

I was just wondering how to go about doing something like this. There are a number of youtubers (with large followings) that I enjoy, and they've all dropped the word "adpocalypse" at one point or another. So I'd image they're at least open to options. I'm just not sure how to put it in their face (i'm imagining the get a lot of messages regularly). Any advice?

I've just been posting to them either on twitter or in youtube comments, using steemit for steemit.com and dtube dot video.

The people get millions of interactions so you can't be sure they've actually seen your comment, so I've left it on many of their videos.

The only one I've had a response from is Angry Pepe from Kek News Network who said he'd check it out. But imagine if just a couple of them made the move - it would start an earthquake.

I check Dtube nearly everyday and have seen the @corbettreport and @x22report are on there/here.

It would help if once the names are on here, they spread the word too.

So basically, just keep plugging. Maybe have a notepad template that you can copy and paste - just don't do it excessively. I would say one per video, so you don't get accused of spam, and don't include links, youtube doesn't like that you might recommend a site they don't approve of, and I'm pretty sure they won't approve of Dtube.

If you have a youtube account maybe make a review video to post on there.

Simple stuff, just be careful not to get flagged for anything.

I know I sound like a tinfoil retard now... but i am almost certain reddit is hiding steemit-links...

see my comment below

This is really great. I can see this project taking over YouTube soon. If you have created video with this, do well to share. Want to read about my life story here https://steemit.com/@jenroy

Reddit can be oblivious. Will post to a few subs I know. Be well Picard.

you hating(face palming) on reddit? I heard they didn't like steemit much :D so just don't use steem anywhere :D

Great coment. 👍

😂😂😂😂

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

This is some really great work you put together here @heimindanger. were you planning on open sourcing it as well? You may also want to check out the script I released a few weeks back, which helps you easily identify and upvote recent author comments on an expired post. This could be used to continually monetize popular videos and maintain their ipfs streams indefinitely, even after the 7 day post payout window expires.

Link: Minnow Post Vote Slider and Past Payout Monetizer Script... and next, here comes SteemTUBE! (or in this case... DTube!)

So you use a bunch of FOSS to make this thing, post about it on a FOSS platform but you have "no plans for open sourcing it yet"?

You might consider putting some thought into an open business model that works. There's nothing wrong with making money from your work, but if you deny users the Four Essential Freedoms https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.en.html you've voluntarily reduced yourself to a modern/digital slave trader. I hope you're better than that.

Also, all of you windows/mac users who think this is just great: do you think you free yourself by going from one master(youtube) to another(DTube)? How do you think youtube started out? It too, was nice and friendly slaveware. Where did that get everybody?

Why not throw your weight behind LBRY https://lbry.io/ for instance. It's FOSS and respects your freedoms, even if it's the MIT variant and allows the type of leeching i'm complaining about with the current stance of Dtube.

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I'm with cryptoreturn on this one - what are the potential threats? Unminifying the code - common editors can 'beautify' the code to make it more readable (it's built into Edge now), so the only thing being hidden are variable names.

Lbry is an existing platform, and openly accepts contributions - I don't see anything unique about this project, other than you're starting it yourself.

Could you at least maybe open source the front end design so we can spruce it up and maybe add suggestions. Then you can worry about the backend. Long-term I believe all of the code will be required by the community in order to trust it. There should also be a discussion of the auto tagging with the prefix of "dtube-". I'm not sure if this is the best route.

Here you do the world a favor and people bash you for it, unreal! Unfortunately, there's a lot of people in this world who have nothing but hatred for humanity and will complain about anything. For the record, I appreciate the work you did, and people shouldn't be so god damn judgemental, like you owe them something, its pathetic.

If they don't like the way you built DTube, then they should shut the hell up, stop complaining, and build their own god damn platform.

Is it available on IOS as app to be downloaded?

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I really want to use this and I tried 2 times and failed. It's time I shot video using the video option on daube and the second I shot the video and uploaded it. Both from my iPhone 7. You can see my two failed attempts on my page. I really want to use this but I don't want to keep posting post with videos that won't play. @heimindanger please help me out ... what did I do wrong? Thanks you for all of your hardwork. I love the idea of eliminating YouTube out of my video posts on steemit.

Hey! I've been working on a Android app, and think it would be great to implement DTube as well, figured the best way to get information of the API is by contacting you directly. https://steemit.com/android/@edgar-trem/update-steem-android-app-amazing-performance-asksteem-and-possibly-dtube

Classic.

"Why can't I log in with my master password or active key?
Because it's a retarded thing to do."

100% upvote for this part alone!

Really great work @heimindanger, I love that you built first / talked later. Looking forward to giving this a try soon!

This post received a 3.8% upvote from @randowhale thanks to @britt.the.ish! For more information, click here!

Another amazing project that deserves resteeming and upvoting to help with the further development! It is fantastic for all those things coming to life. Week by week there are new projects starting that have the potential to not only grow steemit as the platform but to disrupt other already existing ones. Great job guys, following you now to give you some more support and to see what is the progress. Have a great weekend! Tomas

I second that! This deserves to be spotlighted and I for one will definitely follow (in two sense of the word) the development of this. This could be huge!

Great job, @heimindanger! This is as inspiring as it gets! Totally stoked!!!

@czechglobalhosts
Support with your comment 👍

Thanks for introducing DTube ...really awesome post !!

Yes! this is excellent! we need more projects like that with a dedicated team we can trust! Youtube is getting very fascist!

Great news, more appreciation for content creator, and creative profession. Bravo

This post is doing really well so far getting extensive support which is fabulous! I am sure we can do better guys! All the voters and people leaving the comments should resteem to get this even bigger exposure.... working as a team:).....

Amazing coment

Yay neighbour! Following :)

The project is doing fantastic so far! I have been checking on the website over the past couple of days and the new videos are being added and already collecting rewards. Hopefully it will only grow and grow:).... I wrote a post mentioning Dtube just to give the project a little boost so feel free to check it out: https://steemit.com/steemit/@czechglobalhosts/steemit-projects-that-will-change-the-future-of-social-media. Thank you. Tomas

100% Upvoted! You're the man!

VERY VERY interesting. Just uploaded my first trial video. Super easy.
Jesus, this all seems so great !!!

@onealfa

What happens if the video has no rewards? It does not get hosted on IFPS?

This is awesome! But im having trouble logging in. I went through the correct steps but when i click "login" nothing happens. I really would like to use this if you could help me out it would be awesome!

It will help a lot

Yes im positive I did. And I just made an account on steemit.chat, great work again! I really hope to use this.

Wow! It time to start post new video.
🎉🎊🙏

This is awesome, can't wait to try it!

@staticinstance I can't wait to post videos of you doing the Carleton!

Sweetness grace! we have done it. Well they have not me :) but freaking awesome!!!!!!

is it safe put a private key

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Great job @heimindanger! Wish I could up vote this 2x's. I look forward to testing this out.

Yes! this is excellent! we need more projects like that with a dedicated team we can trust! Youtube is getting very fascist!

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

and you created steemwhales too right? That's is like the premier application ever! I was always curious where this creator went...now i see..you have been working.

but it is sooooo useful...if you post on it, you will surely get rewards. i doubt if many even know you made it

It appears your SteemWhale is dead in the water! There are way more updating issues besides following count. Personally, I don't even use the site anymore... have gone elsewhere. Sorry.

Hi there. When I try to play the DTube videos I've uploaded they won't play. Should I pay an IPFS static node to increase playback reliability or is there something else that I can do to help playback?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Thanks! I can do this on my home system! I appreciate your feedback and hope to help DTube how I can, at least with content, but running a node would also help.

Playing the devils advocate - What are the risks signing into DTube and giving my private posting keys?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Brilliant! Thanks for the response and playing the devils advocate!

This is really exciting what you have created here!

WOW - very very impressive!!

Dear Sir,

Thank you for your foresight and initiative! When many just complained about the current state of Youtube, it's censorship and unfairness, you simply went ahead and created something amazing!

Thank you so much for your time and effort in making this project a reality!

Best of luck,
tugaland

Hi @heimindanger, I just started using DTube, I think it's an excellent idea. At last to get out of the routine of other pages. But I can not see nowhere that percentage of my video has gone up. I think it's coming up! By the waiting icon that I see. Thanks for the input. Greetings.

Hey I uploaded this video to dtube but it's just saying error and won't play https://dtube.video/v/captaincanary/yw5tpcdb

works fine! liked and folloing you now :)

Great application!

I love the 'Take a snap' feature. Good job.

Hey @furion what do you think about this in relation to view.ly AND do u ever remember what happened to SteemQ? And also, do you forsee these decentralized youtube apps using steem as creying a problemwith stroing the HD video files? Can we upload the videos to the steem blockchain or can we use a system like Sia or something? (now that i think about it, if we can use siacoin or storj to store data decebntralized, i bet we can use steem, man this is amazing, thanks for all your development and promotion work @furion and @heimindanger

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

The Viewly Uploader is a temporary construct, and not likely to get new features for the time being. We plan to spend some time on server-less publishing.

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Great news!

I have to mention, that one year ago, implementing Steem like nowadays with steemconnect, was not so easy, and platform didn't had so many tech people around to go more wide like we can do now. I'm supporting completely project!

If you want extra nodes, Steem Thailand can provide 1 or 2, Thailand based for this project. Also I would like to find few helpers about one project

SteemNOT - Steem NON-Official Trail

Wordpress based, java nodified, private section of Steem. Where posts can be private for only members of community (while on Steem you will asked for login), with perfect tinyMCE editor for STEEM ACCEPTABLE MARKUP only, private image galeries, uploads, etc...

It's not yet announced, we are still having problem of making SteemConnect to be able to link plugin with any user registered, and fuck off from WordPress database completely, but its gonna be sorted this month.

I'm saying this, because at the same time i would like to offer dtube.video to become part of SteemNOT.com aswell since we don't have Video uploads yet :)

Best regards,

Lucifer

Men in Black will approach you from behind if that is not the case,

Ahahhahaha, ok, i'll test it next week with integrations and let you know about through review :)

Cheers

Lucifer

Brilliant!!

Thanks for sharing

Very excited to see this finally launch! Looking forward to seeing it grow.

Thank you @heimindanger for creating dtube!
I'm so excited that there's finally a way to upload videos to the Steem Blockchain!
Finally decentralized platform for videos without GEMA or other restrictions on the Steem Blockchain. This is awesome!
Steem On!

Long awaited project! Bravo, @heimindanger, upvoted & resteemed. Please just make it clear if the login is made by account name with or without “@” symbol.

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Thanks for the quick answer. I can't login at all. Is it because I'm already logged on Steemit? Or the system is ailing?

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Of course.

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

Thank you for your support @heimindanger.

I am new to Steemit but posts like this are very helpful, keep up the great work @heimindanger.

100% Upvote, Resteem and Follow from #teemnomad!

A very good initiative. Right now there are some other decentralized video platforms, but connecting it to steem is where you made the best part. Tons of steem users will be benefited from this video platform.

Its amazing that you have done it alone. Keep up the good work

 7 years ago  Reveal Comment

From my initial reading ...WOW. Just what we needed

I'm a little slow on tech these days, but, some more in depth reading and a couple of video uploads to test this out, and hopefully I'll have a better understanding of how this works.

Thanks for your work on this, and GOOD LUCK!

reSteemed

Man, DTube seems amazing! I could certainly see myself uploading some videos, eventually. Being rewarded in STEEM for videos is awesome.

Having said the above, yes, I know I can link YouTube videos inside Steemit posts, but after a few misunderstandings here and there I am not really sure I want to host videos on YouTube. And there is no real way to embed videos from other providers (DailyMotion, etc), so DTube looks like an interesting project! :)


Fantastic work - thank you so much for your hard work!
Just had a look ... marvellous - some one needs take youtube's place - looks like it could be you!

upvoted and resteemed

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For some reason when I upload, it'll finish uploading after a couple hours and I'll press "submit" only for it to say "error: please upload a video before submitting"
Any idea what's going on?

You sir are amazing. May you erase YouTube from the internet and make billions while your at it.

It is maybe just 1% of YouTube but I hope for you and for the Community that other Steemians will join to you to build something else than YouTube.
Thank you for your hard work.

Well done another user uses the steem block chain to do a project. You are great because you started something that you wanted to. Thwre are starters, finishers and people who can just build stuff inside out they only need a standing structure. Great work @heimindanger. image

Dude! This may only be 1% of what's needed, but this is better than anything else, and that's what matters! I don't really have any video making skills, but I'm very much excited about what others create on this new platform!

There could be no better springboard to learning the skills you mentioned than the enthusiasm you showed. Good luck. This one will fly far.

NO matter how little you say dtube is @heimindanger. Youtube started tiny also. Your initiative deserves praise and upvotes to say the least. Giving makers more control of their content creations is the right start. Keep moving forward!

A fully written app in javascript, which runs in a browser, which allows uploading and watching videos over the IPFS Network. In addition, it uses STEEM as a database and allows getting prizes from your uploads. I think it's true what is said by @heimindanger and I have never been disappointed with STEEM

Translate to indonesia :
Saya noted tulisan ini dan ini jadi kesimpulan :
Sementara saya pribadi percaya bahwa desentralisasi adalah masa depan, jangan sampai harapan Anda terlalu tinggi. Bersaing dengan YouTube adalah tugas berat yang tidak bisa dilakukan oleh satu orang. Maksud saya dengan proyek ini adalah untuk secara praktis mendemonstrasikan kemungkinan video terdesentralisasi di atas IPFS. Ini berhasil, tapi kita tidak tahu seberapa baik kerjanya dalam jangka panjang. YouTube juga memiliki banyak fitur tambahan yang membuat pengalaman menjadi lebih unggul. Apa yang saya bangun, mewakili mungkin 1% dari pekerjaan yang dibutuhkan untuk memiliki sesuatu yang dapat bersaing dengan YouTube. Saya membangun beberapa dinding, tapi tidak ada isolasi, atau lukisan, dan seluruh bangunan bisa runtuh setiap saat.

Nice posting, like it your write @heimindanger
Thanks

Best regards
@mukhtar.juned

A lot of information to digest here. But this is a fantatstic idea. The length of time the videos will be held unto before needing be seeded by the users themselves presenta a learning curve for an average user with basic computer experience. There will definitely have to be some instructions upon their first inital file upload. To make it clear to them that it is something they can act on now by utilizing...so on and so forth. I just have a feeling that users will forget to take control of the seeding if their videos as soon as they can or they may very well lose the ability to display their content.

I know this comment is old, but can you explain the seeding thing to me? I'm new to all of this.

@heimnidanger I cant thank you enough for this brother. This is great and has been much needed. Your project has my full support and I wish you luck in your task.

  • I was unable to log into your application when trying to test it, will try again later. Did you disable the log in?

Hey JohalFiles :)
Did you copy and paste you private posting key or your public one? I initially used my public one accidentally, but then pressed "Show Private Key" next to the address and copied and pasted it. Worked fine!

Yes I have used the correct key, double and triple checked it.

  1. I entered the private posting key, clicked log in and nothing happened. The page stays static.

  2. I tried typing in a fake password to see what happens, and the page gives me a log in message saying "wrong key"

What a great initiative, I love the fact that you actually built it first ! I read through and actually the tech parts were pretty good even for a next to non tech like me I am a multimediadesigner and artist, but more on the design look part, I resteemed and will be checking out your Dtube when I get back from vacation !

You know what you have to do. Just don't stop doin'. Good job, keep up the good work. Upvoted. -#Padre

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