Yeah, servers aren't cheap so it would take some serious investment to make it happen. Various other companies have done it though so it's not impossible... definitely a questionable place to throw your capital though.
Right on :) I never left. Just been busy with other things lately. Gonna commit to more regular posting soon though. Hope the winter's treating you well so far!
I know what it takes to host videos, only youtube can do it, and even youtube bombards you with advertising if you don't pay $9 per month, steem free video hosting is impossible
Wouldn't have to be free, I guess. I'd certainly be willing to pay for it. I already pay Wistia for Fort Galt's video hosting and it would be awesome to be able to move to a steemit-integrated alternative for the same price.
yes, and bloggers who earn rewards can afford to pay for it, so in that sense, if it's not free hosting then yes.. it's very possible, but paid hosting would be centralized and may not last forever, or as long as youtube could last
I feel that to do it Steemit would have to partially go to an Ad Revenue model to pay for all the cost of doing it. I'm not opposed to it but personally I'm fine with utilizing YouTube and these free photo sites. One of the best things about Steemit is that you can put a photo or video in the comment section. I love that and wish I could do that on YouTube.
I was surprised we haven't seen a more aggressive price dip as well. It could happen overtime. Also I agree with the comment below saying that it simply isn't worth it to go out of pocket at this point to become a major stake holder.
I'm overall bullish on Steem / Steemit and the concept overall. It is really solid. That being said I'm very disciplined over here about my strategy. One of the things I don't like right now is that I can't voice my opinion and put up post that even have a hint of negativity toward the platform even if it is constructive. I have noticed pretty much every content creator who is automatically getting large whale upvotes never say anything negative about Steemit. They are like robots pumping out kid / family friendly content. That is cool and some of them have good stuff but anyone considered to be a "loose canon" never seems to really be put on large whales vote list. There is a post I have wanted to do for months that would point out some of the reasons why people are often failing to want to join and post anything here. Even though it is a constructive post it would take too much time and I won't make anything on it and could become further black listed.
it takes time to develop steemit, all gripes, concerns , and criticisms will get solved in time, so I agree with them for filtering out the negativity from those who don't have patience
Without the constructive criticism they wouldn't be able to take user feedback into consideration. I feel like the issues brought forth were a reason for some of the changes that were made in Hard Fork 16. It is necessary. If people feel like they won't make anything from a post that addresses valid issues then the platform could go down a path that will not let it reach its potential.
ok, I like your blog posts, and I am happy you are refraining from complaints about steemit in your posts, let someone else risk their reputation and rewards by blogging those complaints, and you stay in the light. Reserve your gripes and complaints for comments like in this thread, thatS the safer way to play this game
Yeah, servers aren't cheap so it would take some serious investment to make it happen. Various other companies have done it though so it's not impossible... definitely a questionable place to throw your capital though.
Solid post @piedpiper good to have you back. Yeah I do believe anything is possible. Hosting our own video/image content is not out of the question.
Right on :) I never left. Just been busy with other things lately. Gonna commit to more regular posting soon though. Hope the winter's treating you well so far!
Don't say "impossible", man... you're usually more positive than that.
I know what it takes to host videos, only youtube can do it, and even youtube bombards you with advertising if you don't pay $9 per month, steem free video hosting is impossible
Wouldn't have to be free, I guess. I'd certainly be willing to pay for it. I already pay Wistia for Fort Galt's video hosting and it would be awesome to be able to move to a steemit-integrated alternative for the same price.
yes, and bloggers who earn rewards can afford to pay for it, so in that sense, if it's not free hosting then yes.. it's very possible, but paid hosting would be centralized and may not last forever, or as long as youtube could last
Why not look at integrating with a crypto powered distributed storage platform like Sia?
I feel that to do it Steemit would have to partially go to an Ad Revenue model to pay for all the cost of doing it. I'm not opposed to it but personally I'm fine with utilizing YouTube and these free photo sites. One of the best things about Steemit is that you can put a photo or video in the comment section. I love that and wish I could do that on YouTube.
I was surprised we haven't seen a more aggressive price dip as well. It could happen overtime. Also I agree with the comment below saying that it simply isn't worth it to go out of pocket at this point to become a major stake holder.
I'm overall bullish on Steem / Steemit and the concept overall. It is really solid. That being said I'm very disciplined over here about my strategy. One of the things I don't like right now is that I can't voice my opinion and put up post that even have a hint of negativity toward the platform even if it is constructive. I have noticed pretty much every content creator who is automatically getting large whale upvotes never say anything negative about Steemit. They are like robots pumping out kid / family friendly content. That is cool and some of them have good stuff but anyone considered to be a "loose canon" never seems to really be put on large whales vote list. There is a post I have wanted to do for months that would point out some of the reasons why people are often failing to want to join and post anything here. Even though it is a constructive post it would take too much time and I won't make anything on it and could become further black listed.
it takes time to develop steemit, all gripes, concerns , and criticisms will get solved in time, so I agree with them for filtering out the negativity from those who don't have patience
Without the constructive criticism they wouldn't be able to take user feedback into consideration. I feel like the issues brought forth were a reason for some of the changes that were made in Hard Fork 16. It is necessary. If people feel like they won't make anything from a post that addresses valid issues then the platform could go down a path that will not let it reach its potential.
ok, I like your blog posts, and I am happy you are refraining from complaints about steemit in your posts, let someone else risk their reputation and rewards by blogging those complaints, and you stay in the light. Reserve your gripes and complaints for comments like in this thread, thatS the safer way to play this game
Would you like to discuss it in a video interview?
Possibly. Are you in Steemit.chat to discuss it?
sure. I usually pop in there once every day or two.
Are you under the same handle? I tried to look you up to DM you but didn't see it?