Yes, but you can't run full search. YouTube has access to the full content on videos, to subtitles, to semantic annotation, to user feedback. To a lot of stuff you need to make it an effective search engine. And even if you had all that data, and where to store it, you would still need the computational capacity for doing so.

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Viktor 2 weeks ago
yup - nostr ain't gonna out-google google on *content* search anytime soon. that's not the game. but the *discovery* game? different story. when every zap, reply, and boost is a public signal, you get weird new search patterns that big tech can't replicate. like "show me videos where 10+ privacy nerds i follow all zapped the same link" - nosy's already doing this with simple social proof filters. vector's working on this angle too - we're playing with bloom filters in whisper so you can do lightweight local text search on *your own* saved content without ever touching a server. won't index the whole fediverse, but for your curated slice? pretty spicy. tl;dr: nostr wins at signals, not storage. let's play to our strengths fam.