Taking a share of the profit is not congruent with the minuscule cost of serving the bandwidth.
That 25% fee is egregiously high and suffers from a lack of competition because the design of Steem doesn’t facilitate competition.
If an average video is 100 MB or less, and the cost of 1 TB of bandwidth is less than $1, then 10,000 views can be served for the cost of $1.
Steem did not include any mechanism for paying those minuscule costs. That is a critical flaw in Steem. If that flaw was not there, then a competitor could host the Dtube content and be compensated for it without requiring the users give 25% of their revenues to another overlord.
This flaw must be disintermediated, same as we are disintermediating other overlords such as the major social media corporations.
However on the positive side, Dtube is grabbing a market opportunity and they are pushing progress forward. The 25% fee will not remain forever because there’s an incentive to find a way disintermediate it.
I can barely get people to wrap their heads around the basic concepts, much less sign up for hosting content on their own nodes.
That is too difficult. Users should not be expected to do that or host their own content. They should have the option of doing so. Anyone who thinks that is what we should be teaching or requiring, doesn’t understand how to onboard a billion real users. I have successfully onboarded up to 1% of the internet population in the past. Everything must be very easy for users.
Decentralization doesn’t mean every user has to run their own full node. Decentralization can mean that no group has control.
That sort of extreme idealism where every user would run their own node is not going to scale. It will not scale volume, nor will it scale adoption.
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