youtube_video sideproject
History ¶
- Started thinking about the idea on Jan 2021
- Stopped working on it Sept 2021
- Even when I got the opportunity, many things were happening
Trigger to renew discussion ¶
- The need for a platform for free speech
- Announcement of Quabila around Nov 14 2023 by Sameh Deabes
- Project facebook group
- No public technical design
- The problem it tries to solve (subject to refinement):
- Enable content creators spread their ideas
- Personal branding
- Profit from content
- Based on Tribes by Seth Godin. ref
- Criticism from Mohamed Elsherif about isolationism
last activity ¶
Current activity ¶
- Reviewing the implementation
Base of the idea ¶
- Social media is people talking to each other in the digital space
- and it should adhere to the same rules for people talking in real life
Problem ¶
- Accelerate innovation: photographers Exif data and example
- Walled garden: I would like to share my videos once to appear on all my social applications
- Censorship: especially at the times of large conflicts
- Ads
- Algorithm
- Control
- Data travels over the internet although there is no need for that
- Data leak
What it is not ¶
Challenges ¶
- Self-hosting is still expensive, especially for videos
- P2P protocols are an implementation hassle and not reliable in some networks
- Machines are not 100% connected to the internet yet
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