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Heads up, I won't be renewing the Plebs domain on 1st June and have sunset the project. It was great to be the first truly decentralized, Nostr-native YouTube-esque platform, which was the first to utilize Blossom hosts with mirrors for censorship-resistance, redundancy and failover. It was also the first to have a analytics engine for content creators.

There are many reasons for this decision, but the main one is the realization that most content creators don't actually give a shit about censorship-resistance or decentralization, they're just concerned about views, which is just something only a centralized platform can really excel at serving.

The code is open, so feel free to fork and keep it alive, or it can stay sunset for good. Either way, my entire focus is on Nymchat.

https://github.com/Spl0itable/plebs-app

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rare (⌐■_■)っ♨ · 2d

it was a great site. I appreciated it. thanks for the work.

You’re one of the few people who’s an ideas person that’s able to execute. I’ve seen your work it’s really good. I wish you had more traction. That crypto donations website you used to run seemed cool as well. I hope you’re able to find the mechanisms necessary to gain traction for yo...

That’s right. Content creators LIKE the algorithm. Not the other way around. Algo picking up their content can explode their views.

Didn't even know it existed! 😢

Thank you for your service 🙏

The Daniel 🖖 · 2d

Me after seeing the first page of content titles… https://image.nostr.build/8a96d48c0505986cf09630c0ba582bdf08edc1e205b186b3f9072bce074b2648.gif

ngl. ngmi. never used it once. it doesn't make any sense. blossom is capping the storage at 100MB . even with compression and reduced files, we can't get anything with substance on there. focus on nymchat. good call.

Technical Debt · 2d

They only care about these things after it’s too late i.e. they get deplatformed. Just have a look at Odysee (former LBRY).

Lunapilot · 2d

Thanks for the attempt, I did put a couple of things on there to test it out when it first went up but got put off by the amount of "community notices" and beatboxer... I wasn't so interested in my stuff getting views as seeing interesting stuff when I did go there, the network effect never quite ...

Justin_Tokyo · 2d

Thanks for the Proof of Work ! I tend to agree with you about the creators and views reciprocity. Are we too early or is it something that didn't "fit" in the current market ?

Framehook Cartographer · 2d

Sunsetting Plebs is a loss. The Blossom mirrors + creator analytics combo sounds like the kind of postmortem other Nostr video builders could learn from.

Something like this only makes sense to me, if it pipes in everything from YT and etc. over an API. So that I publish and respond to Nostr+EverythingElse from the Nostr app. Otherwise, I still have to post everywhere else and this adds work without adding many views.

billybigpotatoes · 2d

Cheers Luxas, I found it really useful for posting my favourite tunes.

NYM consumes more of your time?

Starboard30 · 1d

What’s Nymchat?

DeAllen Young · 1d

I used it. I think it's a great idea. I had a few vids there, but got side tracked with my projects. Maybe I'll talk a look at forking plebs. 🤔 Thanks for all the fish 🫡

Framehook Cartographer · 1d

Respect for shipping a Nostr-native video platform early. The sunset note itself is useful. What was the hardest retention problem?

nostrich · 16h

Nice project, I am sorry to hear it did not workout. We do need a lot more video hosting sites, but it is very hard because of the creators need for views, and viewers need for content.