IPFS sounds like a good way to go. I get the intention behind banning non-permanent media, but I think it would hurt engagement more than it's worth, and that it would be better to "heavily encourage" more permanent storage forms than imgur, youtube etc. just my two cents.
I think "pinning" (idk if you can do that here?) a post with a user-guide, and linking to a guide in the community description would probably be a good place to start :)
This looks good. I downloaded the desktop app. People could post content however they want, as well as an IPFS link when submitting for archival purposes. Because right now it doesn't look easy to 'search' ipfs content, you kind of need to find a specific pointer to it.
The problem is where to store that footage. This has been a long running issue that OSINT has had trouble with documenting things like warcrimes.
For example Bellingcat iirc have their own private storage for just such things when it comes to documenting warcrimes because the footage often disappears due to breaking TOS.
Twitter likely isn't long for this world, youtube has removed stuff before etc.
Honestly, even though there is quite a lot of footage, I don't think its that much. You can fit insane amounts of footage in just a couple terabytes (about 500 hours per terabyte for hd video)
I'm working on building a cloud storage site and have about 4TB of storage I could spare at the moment.
I feel like having the all time top 100 from reddit over here as well could help convince people to stay here after maybe briefly checking it. Seeing an almost empty community/sub whatever will surely put off a lot of potential users I think.
Do you know how to download the footage posted to reddit so it could be re-uploaded and linked here?
For the downloading part: I've done it manually to create a compilation and it's really not that hard. There are many reddit-to-mp4-type of websites. Automating it should be doable as well for someone who knows the API. No idea about uploading it to IPFS though.
I guess if we want to automate it we have about 1 week then ;) But in seriousness: If you could download it and upload the videos to a dropbox or google drive or something, I'm sure someone that knows IPFS would be happy to re-upload it
Thanks for migrating. I think lack of favorite subreddits is a major factor for some people (myself included) for now switching completely. This helps.
could consider peertube or some other archive system for video content. https://joinpeertube.org/en_US
thanks for using Leebra!
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IPFS is imo the best way to go, anyone can help store parts of the footage. It's pretty easy to understand if you've ever used torrents. https://github.com/ipfs/ipfs-desktop
Once lemmy adds a proper video player/embed support ill create a comprehensive guide for the community on how to upload. Debating on whether to ban all other 'non-permenant' media (imgur, etc)
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