There are 2 elements of a YouTube style client. The organization of metadata (listings) Actual storage YouTube does both because it’s centralized and I don’t know if it loss leaders it’s service for other purposes or not. Haven’t checked how profitable it is. The idea here that you can use kind 1063 and host a URL elsewhere works too. I’m still building something that could be useful for decentralized storage though it’s far from ready for prime time. Flare’s is probably a good start especially for bootstrapping a set up. 🤷‍♂️

It would make sense to keep the discovery/social aspect separate from the media storage and allow for multiple sources for the same video in case some go down. And possibly you could upload to many places at once. (repeating myself here, it would be nice to have) (A) Torrent (like) protocol where you pay for download/stream and get paid in bitcoin for actively hosting it. Where people could sponsor the streaming of a video (or a part of it) if they wanted more eyes on their content.

This.