To be clear, the part of this nostr would be useful for is the index. The rest of it is just bittorrent and a YouTube frontend.

Tip from Amir: 1. install qbittorrent 2. view -> search engine 3. click "Search plugins..." on newly appeared Search tab 4. click "Check for updates" 5. click Close 6. search whatever you want. Make sure you order by Seeders 7. BONUS: use "download in sequential order" (when downloading new, or from right click menu) to stream your movie and play it in VLC or MPV

Thinking about this more, we're 95% of the way there already - nostr already indexes bittorrent infohashes, and there are already YouTube frontends. It might help if nostr's bittorrent indexing added a text field for YouTube video ID (watch?v=id) To credit original creators, the client could also use a new npub for every upload, with an automatically-generated kind 0 profile called "@youtubehandle reposter" (replacing youtubehandle as appropriate) I might have to make a bounty for this, we're so close. A bounty might not even be needed though, surely I'm not the only one thinking of this? View quoted note →

Wow, I've been using qbittorrent without even knowing how to search with it. Maybe they keep search functionality tucked away like this to avoid harassment by the copyright cartel? Thanks for the tip

Yeah, takes a while to find. Try it, it's awesome.

BUILT-IN magnet search ? with in app

Idk if blossom is the tech for that I posted about how to take on YouTube a while ago, thought about making a dev bounty for it but couldn't find a good enough platform for posting dev bounties View quoted note → View quoted note → View quoted note →

"incredible" ? trash version of what I described here

🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit

I hope someday nostr will kill YouTube with simple piracy 🏴‍☠️ 

Just decentralize hosting, indexing, and searching of YouTube

was this even any easier to build than a torrent-based version, or was there actually extra effort spent to make it into trash?

No that still wasn't it wtf? my bad This might do it View quoted note →

Awesome. The future looks gooood

One feature of BitTorrent that gels nicely with Nostr is that the contents of the torrent are hashed and thus cannot be altered. And, once you publish a torrent (and others start seeding it), it cannot be revoked. So it has some anti-censorship features. So, can Nostr notes and subscriptions serve completely for content discovery?

The backend is there as far as I can tell, there's just no good UI for it yet