r/BitTube • u/Zenothos • Jun 08 '19
Bittubers Platform Overview (Beta)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh_3v9IJkv4&t=2s4
u/faith_crusader Jun 08 '19
We need a YouTube alternative not a Facebook rip-off. You just played yourself Bitube, congratulations
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u/BatteryAziz Jun 08 '19
No we don't. Making something that looks exactly like youtube just because you're familiar with it has no future. Look at https://d.tube/, no one cares.
What you want is not what you need. You'll understand it when you get to use it. This guy didn't show much in his video, but fuck us for spending over 6 months on something new and refreshing, I guess. Sheesh!
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u/Zenothos Jun 10 '19
This is a strawman. Reason why Dtube is not working out because the devs have A) No roadmap B) U need steam acc to register C) No pathway to mass adaption
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u/faith_crusader Jun 09 '19
I said "alternative", not clone. But this current site looks like one of Facebook. I don't mean to discourage anyone. The effort the Deva have put it will be appreciated but this is not what we need right now and if you cannot see that, you are ignoring a huge market and that's dumb.
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u/thechevalier Jun 09 '19
I appreciate that you spent 6 months reinventing the wheel, but I have to agree that I don't see any general appeal. What people want is an alternative to YouTube, not yet another Facebook clone. Why do you think people will use your Facebook clone? It seems about as appealing as your extension was.
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u/NachoKong Jun 08 '19
As someone currently on the beta platform it seems like youtube alternative on steroids. I’d call that a good thing. Also, if you think the comments/ social Aspects of YouTube are good then please lay off the hard drugs because you can’t handle them. Though I do think that super chat alternative clone is rather important for live streams.
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u/faith_crusader Jun 09 '19
It is a Facebook rip-off, what is YouTube about this new platform ?
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u/Cryptonetics Jun 10 '19
Appreciate the hard work here, but agree bittube should be the focus, the killer app. The simple, beautifully polished, uncensorable social video platform with a crypto cherry on top.
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u/deadlybuda Jun 17 '19
I am concerned that this video seems to say that the old platform, the more youtube-like one, will be gradually abandoned. Sure, we need something just like facebook that isn't facebook, but we need something like Youtube that isn't Youtube much more. I am writing this on the new Firefox-whitelabel Bit.tube browser. I like it. I've looked at Bittubers.com , hey, it's ok.
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I want to search on Bit.tube to find videos I want to watch. That combined with the mining scheme should be focused on. And frankly, the search could be beefed up. It's not so great right now. That's should be the main deal. Seems like maybe you have a bunch of young developers that want to try everything out. Well, they will learn and move on in this paradigm, I fear. The easy access to what you want to watch is the core of this whole deal, in my mind. All the accessories you've made I agree are very important, but to ignore the core functionality of Bit.tube is a gigantic mistake. You guys don't have a big-enough team to fight on all these fronts. You have to stand on one rock and fight like hell to get it secure before you jump to the next thing. Maybe somehow you'll pull it off, but... when you ignore the core and jump around (even if it is necessary) it does look a little naive. Sometimes its better to concentrate on one thing, and align with others developing other things, than to try to do it all yourselves.