It's been a long time, but here I am back with a new episode of 'Kenny's 2 Minute STEEM Tips!"

If this is your first time stumbling across this series, welcome :-) I am doing my best to cover all of the ins & outs of the Steemit world in short, digestible posts. I know there is a pretty steep learning curve for this platform, and my goal is to help flatten it out just a bit :-)

If you've got any questions about the platform, please feel free to ask them in the comments; not only will I answer them (if I can), but maybe they'll be the basis for my next episode (in which case I will mention you as the inspiration).

The Series So Far:

Today: Episode #37

Making the Most of your DTube Posts

| ▶️ DTube | ▶️ IPFS | ▶️ YouTube |

If you haven't gotten into using Hive account@dtube yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's so great being able to put videos straight onto STEEM, having another platform through which to browse & such, and of course it's great that the platform has its own account, and supports lots of the creators using it.

I put many of my videos ONLY on DTube, mostly those that are Vlogs and such. However, with some of my more important videos, those that I really want to have around for a long time, I also put them on YT & FB. I do this for two reasons:

FB & YT both often allow me to get much bigger reach with those videos.
Assuming they don't get flagged down for some reason, videos on both of those platforms stick around forever, while DTube videos are temporary.

That's right, when you upload a video onto DTube, it puts it on the IPFS (Interplanetary File System), but if you aren't seeding (just like torrents) those videos, then they are going to disappear after a while. Hive account@heimindanger & Hive account@dtube host them for us temporarily for us, but it would be quite expensive to do so indefinitely.

There are a lot of folks who also upload to Hive account@dtube & YT both, but unfortunately many of them end up double posting on STEEM (one for the dtube upload and one for the YT video itself). I really dislike the idea of double-posting, and that DTube video basically becomes useless after the IPFS file disappears.

My Solution

I just make one post, my Hive account@dtube upload. Once I've uploaded it there (with all the text description and such), I go in on SteemPeak and make some tweaks, moving up the dtube & ipfs links that are auto-populated and centering them with the video itself to look cleaner. I also go in and add links to any other places the video has been uploaded. I also replace the DTube hyperlink in the image to the YT post, so it will be viewable forever.

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Taking it a Step Further

If anyone is interested (and maybe has the tech knowledge), I would LOVE to pool some funds together and run an IPFS server so that we can keep our videos on DTube permanently. Reach out to me in the comments, on Discord, or on Telegram (I'm 'kennyskitchen' everywhere) and let's make it happen.