so its free for creators, which means they have no reason not to use it, assuming we keep login credentials safe. which means how to save that info locally, or make them login to all the sites every time (not exactly a user friendly way to do things)

well, most social media sites have API's to connect to other things,

like all those "share this video" buttons

right, i'm more concerned about the upload api

youtube has one, its easy to find. let me look for bitchute

might work better if i knew anime

seems like bitchute doesn't have an official api yet

not surprising, usually APIs start out as communities reverse engineering things, sometimes with support from the companies until its large enough that the leg work is done, then the company just maintains it from there

not uncommon

@Deadpool Good to see you're getting around.

its a trap!

and yes, any company will easily accept a program made for them, they wont have to pay a programmer to make it, just one to check over the code to make sure its safe, and then maintain it

now the next danger comes from websites not wanting the tool compatible. mainly looking at youtube seeing the tool as a threat and trying to change their API and make the upload pieces private, or harder to deal with.

when the tool is new, this is a problem that could torpedo it.

true

what use is a tool that can't upload to the biggest game in town still

they wont want to help competition 😛

now, once it gets going, the reverse will be true. because if the tool makes life easy enough for content creators, then anything not on it, they just won't upload

"why spend time uploading to youtube when i could upload to 3 other video share sits without any more effort,a nd probably get the same amouint of views"

so if most creators use the tool, any new or existing site will want to make themselves compatible so they can get in on the action.

but, you need to get it to that level of popularity.

well if it gets going, it will shrink the monopoly, since people can then use any site they prefer,

Which will then create competition because different sites will then have exclusives on their site, so people get to spread out again

true, but they wouldn't want to cut themselves off from a popular way of getting content. instead they will probably strike deals with creators. and thats fine

you guys are missing a lot of points on that idea

by all means, poke holes

videos without the community aren't worth much

how would you handle the comments, likes, etc?

its an upload tool, the videos will stay on the site

in theory, can add that into the tool

or that

if there's a content ID on one site, would you remove the video from everywhere and reupload?

what do you mean by that?

I mean, your video gets claimed on youtube

also, the comments would probably stay local to the video (i.e. on the host site) but can be made visible from one location for the content maker

would you change the video and reupload only to youtube?

well, you should always allowed customization.

so, say maybe you have several sites, but the video you made doesn't work with ToS of a few of them.