As some of you might have noticed I have been uploading videos to DTube over the last three months ever since I began (what I think of as) my Steemit and DTube journey. Along the way this 'journey' (at least the DTube side of it) has been fraught with errors, failures and ultimately lots of wasted electricity from my very limited supply of what I generate each day, wasted data from my very limited cellular data plan and a heck of a lot of wasted time. All of which I was actually okay with (failures/errors and all) because I thought that I was actually archiving my videos on a decentralized platform where they would be accessible for as long as the service/platform existed. I was even okay with the videos only able to generate revenue for seven days because I am way more fond of sharing knowledge as opposed to desiring revenue.
What I did not know was that the videos are only hosted on DTube for a meager forty-five days and then deleted. From my understanding of things the 'well received videos' (whatever the hell that means) do not suffer this same short life span. Before I ever started using the DTube platform I read everything that I could find about it and somehow missed any mention of this forty-five day hosting limit. I probably could have found this out if I drank the Discord Kool-Aid but that is an entirely different topic.
What gets me is that the videos still appear to be hosted on DTube even after the forty-five day period and if I press play it just shows the spinning little icon like the video is trying to load so there is no way to really tell that the video is no longer being hosted. Personally I think there should be some sort of banner (or something) that informs the user that the video is no longer being hosted and thus is not playable.
So now I face a dilemma of whether:
To stop posting to DTube altogether.
To post very low quality videos in 240p to conserve data, electricity and time.
To embed a permalink to the video in the DTube article to the original video file hosted on Google Drive.
To post only to Steemit and embed the Google Drive video in the article. EDIT: Not an option because Steemit does not allow Google Drive videos to be embedded.
To post only to Steemit and include a permalink to the video file on Google Drive in the article.
To keep doing what I have been doing with no changes.
None of the above.
Anyway as you can probably tell I am rather frustrated over the entire endeavor. The following is an example of what I have done each morning over the last ninety-odd days since I started my Steemit and DTube journey.
Day 639. (Again and not so vague) Wake up...peak out from under the blankets...is the sun up...barely...good...get out of bed...turn on LED light...turn on netbook...start making espresso while netbook boots up...take a morning piss...damn it's cold in here...put on a few more layers of clothes...enter login password on netbook...open text editor...start watching a daily video...start typing out an article while brain is still mostly asleep...just type...edit and spell check later...espresso is done...pour eight shots into remnants of coffee and hot chocolate left over from the night before..keep typing article about the video...damn this video is long...keep typing...ok good the video is done...the article is written...sip more espresso...roll a smoke...is brain awake...no...good start editing and spell checking article...finish smoke...article is done...blink...good...open image editor and make cover image for video...save cover image...good...enough sun yet to start uploading video and charging netbook...maybe...do it anyway...plug in cellular signal repeater...wait for it to equalize...good...turn on phone's mobile data...wait for connection to establish...good...start WiFi hotspot...excellent worked first try...start app to block inbound calls and texts...I fucking hate spam phone calls and texts interrupting my data connection...that's why you have the app...Yeah that's right...okay everything loaded...gently turn the phone screen off...plug in backup battery to phone so it stays operational...gently place phone in diy cooling cradle so it does not overheat..turn on fan for cooling cradle...damn that fucker is noisy...just jiggle it so it is quieter...good that worked...still kind of noisy but meh...okay turn on netbook WiFi card...connection established...good...open web browser...go to DTube...login...upload cover image...it worked...good...start uploading video...wait for it...okay it is working...copy and paste article...add tags...add title...all set...wait a billion seconds for upload to finish...roll another smoke...open next video...start writing another article...almost awake enough to edit as I go...meh just write the fucking thing and edit later...okay good...pour more espresso...sip...sip...sip...finish the fucking smoke...video still uploading...okay go ahead and edit...all set not even any misspelling...that's a rarity...okay open image editor again...make a cover image...save new image...upload not done...back to text editor...open a third video...start typing article...awake enough yet to edit and write simultaneously...Yeah...then edit...good article done...still fucking uploading first video....gah I need real internet someday...nice fantasy...never going to happen...do dogs want out...fuck no it is cold outside and they are warm in the bed...damn they are some lucky dogs.
Thanks for reading and P.S. Don't drink the fucking Kool-Aid!!!