I assume you’re talking about Kauffman, who is the founder of LBRY, but that relationship ended when LBRY lost a lawsuit and Odysee was acquired. It is decentralized, using arweave for video hosting and a blockchain for video metadata.

The main issue w/ Odysee is its near complete lack of moderation, which allows extremists, conspiracy theorists, and other undesirables to earn money. This is because Odysee gives creators the power to moderate their channels, unlike YouTube where most of that is reserved for the platform itself. Odysee is about as free-speech as you get, and that unfortunately allows less desirable content.

My understanding is that Odysee is essentially what you get if you have P2P (not federated) PeerTube w/ a profit motive.

I need to move mine, my current solution kinda sucks.

People keep saying they want an alternative to YouTube, but then reject every alternative that exists.

Odyssee and other YouTube alternatives tend to host far right content because that content was banned on YouTube, so those creators flocked to the alternative platforms. The sites themselves aren’t exactly encouraging that content, it’s just where people end up due to the loose rules. The best way to fight extremism on an alternative platform is to post less extreme content and drown out the less desirable content.

That’s basically what happened here on Lemmy. At the start, it was mostly tankies and far left extremists, and gradually it became more mainstream as more mainstream leftists ditched Reddit and joined Lemmy.

If you want an alternative to YouTube to succeed, you need to use alternative platforms that already exist.

Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.

If he really hated Google, wouldn’t he be motivated to invest his time into its competitors? Maybe he does, idk, I didn’t watch the video because I’m not a fan of his style and I generally try to avoid YouTube.

Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.

Same, but this isn’t that, so I won’t bother.

How can he be done with Google and still posting YouTube videos?

You can run it rootful, then it behaves just like Docker.

Lol, that’s some dangerous waters you’re treading in.

I use HAProxy and Caddy, and for different reasons:

• HAProxy - sni-based proxying to devices on my VPN; lives on my VPS
• Caddy - TLS-trunking (and cert renewal) per device and reverse proxy in front of containers

It works really well. My router is configured as a DNS server to route my domains to my local network, so I get to use TLS even on my LAN, which is neat.

Yup, we’re similar, though I have my SO’s PC and mine to pick from at upgrade time.

I’m a big fan of old PC parts. My current NAS/home lab is my old PC, so a Ryzen 1700 + GTX 750 Ti. It’s overkill for what I need, doesn’t use a ton of power, and I didn’t need to pay anything for it.

If that’s not available, I recommend second hand. Look around your local area and see what’s available, or check online at places like eBay. Be mindful of power usage for server products if that matters to you.

My next option after that depends on what I’m looking for. A mini PC with an external drive enclosure can be really nice, and there are some reasonable ITX-esque DIY rigs with drive bays that look nice. I’ll be a lot more picky when buying new though, so I’m not going to recommend specific setups without knowing your priorities (space? Power usage? Noise?).

ECC is nice, but not a requirement. AV1 on the CPU is nice, but you can get that on a relatively inexpensive GPU if you go that route, or you could encode everything into AV1 at rest in a bulk operation. There are lots of options, so it mostly comes down to what you have access to, your budget, and your priorities.

Depending on the service, you totally can, provided they include some way to recognize them. For example, the first few bytes of SSH are unique, so I made a simple TCP server that would forward traffic to an HTTP(S) server or SSH server depending on those bytes.

Yup, I was reverse proxying early in my career, and I even built my own once for fun (I “hid” an SSH server on my HTTP server by looking at the first few bytes and proxying appropriately).

Well, they said they wanted decentralized, and decentralization comes w/ caveats. I’m just providing options.

Sure, but you don’t necessarily have to use it like that, you can provide your own decentralized storage using it. Put some cheap devices (old RPis w/ large SD cards) at friends’/family members’ houses and have them pin your most important stuff. If they get broken/lost, NBD, you probably have another copy somewhere else.

If a lot of your data isn’t critical and you’re willing to gamble a bit (e.g. movies or something you can re-rip), then IPFS could be a perfect fit, just like torrents are (though IPFS probably isn’t great for large media like movies, but hopefully my point makes sense).

I’m not saying it’s perfect or anything, just that it exists and is in this domain. A lot of similar projects compare themselves to IPFS, so understanding what it is and isn’t is useful what evaluating alternatives.

You could check out IPFS, the OG.

Building stuff is fun, and using something created that does exactly what you want is cool.

Why create a self hosting setup if you’re the only one using it? Same idea.

I build things to solve a problem I have, not to get famous or rich.

1. I’d DIY it, so all on one device. I use an old PC (way overkill) and added some drives, and it does everything I need.
2. Probably? I don’t know much about it, I just use a regular server distro. As long as it gives you enough control to run docker/podman or bare metal services, you should be fine.
3. If your network between the NAS and mini-PC is fast enough, it should work to seed over the network.

I don’t audit the code, but I do somewhat audit the project. I look at:

• recent commits
• variety of contributors
• engagement in issues and pull requests by maintainers

I think that catches the worst issues, but it’s far from an audit, which would require digging through the code and looking for code smells.