Will Dtube Replace Youtube? The 5 Things You Need to Know

What is DTube? 

DTube is an abbreviation of decentralized tube. It is a decentralized video platform built on top of the steem blockchain and the IPFS service.

Like YouTube, you can watch videos on DTube. There are no major differences in watching experience. But the technology and idea behind DTube are quite different from YouTube. DTube is blockchain-based, which has new features like decentralized, crypto incentive, resistant to censorship, claimed fair platform, free of advertisement.

What are the differences between DTube and YouTube?

Decentralized

(1) Storage: YouTube video is stored in Google's data center. While DTube claims to store its contents on IPFS, a distributed storage and distributed storage protocol.

(2) Ownership: YouTube is owned by Google. DTube is a self-governed. DTube is governed by a group of people(currently 10) being elected as leaders by the community and these governing leaders are “in charge of producing new blocks and securing the infrastructure.”

Crypto incentive

You can earn money by monetizing your Youtube channel, like sponsored content, a high number of views and more. This incentive is not uncommon in the Internet world. Reddit did it as well. On Dtube, you get rewarded with Steem Dollars, a stablecoin cryptocurrency for the Steem blockchain, by doing what contributes to the development of Dtube, like content contribution, share and comment. What’s the difference between “incentive” is the “reward”. For YouTube you earn fiat money and for Dtube you earn cryptocurrency, the stablecoin which is pegged to US dollars. You can exchange the stablecoin for fiat money in cryptocurrency Exchanges.

Resistant to censorship

YouTube has its rule and must abide by relevant law and regulations. It happened that YouTube imposed ban on crypo-related advertisements. On Dtube, there is no censorship to content, but users can do censorship by upvotes and downvotes. But the question here is that are users better than employees or experts from YouTube? What to do when the video really breaks the law or regulation but users like it?

Fair platform

On YouTube, there are very complex algorithms to do recommendations, filter “bad” or scam content, calculate the values of your followers. On DTube, there are no hidden algorithms on content visibility and monetization. Actually, YouTube can do the same as that of DTube. The question is that is the hidden algorithms of YouTube really bad thing? Or can Dtube without any hidden algorithms finally lead to fairness or better user experience? And what is fairness in such a context?

Ads-free

YouTube earns money primarily by advertisement. There is no direct advertising on DTube. Since it is decentralized, nobody actually control the DTube, and there is no embedded advertisement function in it. But users can advertise products or services with their video creation if they understand the risk of losing their subscribers.

Other information about DTube

DTube is powered by Steem, Tube, Ipfs, Asksteem(discontinued already).

The official DTube website is: https://d.tube/