FWIW I ran ant file download 63ed009519feeb4d3d0b653861383577bd093d928a3396f7eed0283503a2ed07 Eclipsed.webm and played the resulting file with vlc. I could seamlessly seek within the track so that’s pointing to some browser issue, perhaps?
I understand the wish to make things easy, but it can mislead people that don’t fully understand what is going on.
It also undermines the fundamental goals of privacy and security, because whatever you think about the folk running such a server, you are exposed not just to them but to a myriad of vulnerabilities.
Servers are almost impossible to secure. So if you go that route, or encourage others to do so, why use Autonomi if you care about privacy and security?
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Running an anttp proxy server is great for marketing, people will notice Autonomi if they see the network. You can create Autonomi only anything, if people don’t know about it and use it then what is the point.
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It would be good to tell users of these gateways “hey, you’re using a gateway, if you want a direct access to the network, use this XY app instead.” Educating users and pointing to each other in all those apps..
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It’s not the network though. It’s a remote web server.
If you want to show Autonomi, show Autonomi, not the traditional web. The people who will pick up on this and promote it on their channels won’t be fooled and will appreciate the real thing.
Ordinary folk won’t think it’s impressive either because to them it will look like the traditional web, which is effectively true.
Only those who understand the value of peer-to-peer, security and privacy will be impressed by Autonomi, and those people will know the difference.
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If you besides from showing them also explain that it runs on a peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted network, then they will understand and know.
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There you go saying “it runs on a peer-to-peer, end-to-end encrypted network” when it runs on a remote server.
I don’t have a problem with people doing other things that also use Autonomi, but I do think it is misleading to present a remote server as an example, and misses the whole point in a way that will not impress those who it would be good to get on board.
Anyway, I’ll leave you to it, I’ve explained what it is and why I don’t think it will be helpful marketing to put that at the forefront or as a typical use case etc. Much better to stick to showing the user’s device connecting to the p2p network in a system that protects people and data from a lot of very concerning problems. That is the whole point.
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These links can be shared on social media. Eventually some of the content posted will go viral. When eventually that specific endpoint server goes down, people will complain. Then someone can post underneath that while the endpoint is down, that url is still valid and they just need to download the client itself, and enter that address.
You need to go where people are to show them the alternatives, very few find it themselves.
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It depends on the client. VLC always supports seek, in my experience. The default browser players can be a bit more hit and miss.
AntTP supports seek through range queries. It just depends on whether the player, and the video (encoding), support it.
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Just to note that AntTP can be ran locally, or on a remote server, or even embedded as a library in an app. The same API is used in all 3 scenarios, allowing users to choose their preferred option.
In all cases, the data is sent/received from the Autonomi network. There is a cache, but that is similarly effective in local apps, as it is via a remote server. The latter does benefit by sharing the cache to multiple people though.
I suspect there will be all sorts of native and hybrid apps, some of which will want to use HTTP to access Autonomi data. AntTP isn’t opinionated on which combinations people use/prefer.
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Yep, as noted my issue is with using the server based “magic” to promote Autonomi which is really about something else for me at least. I don’t think it makes sense to do that, or that it will work as I’ve explained. AntTP and so much of your work is brilliant, valuable and shows the potential for all Autonomi apps.
If we want to promote Autonomi as a privacy and security solution, I don’t think it is ok to demo using a remote server, and I also don’t believe it will work. Folk are welcome to use it like that, but they are ditching privacy and security when they do and that matters when the brand is supposed to have that front and center.
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There are two main hypotheses for the future of Autonomi in the next 20 years. The first is for mass direct use of the network, which is the preferred option by all of us.
The second is that mass use will be through portals. Everything in between is also possible. For me, it is great that both options are being worked on.
My personal opinion is that use through portals in the next 20 years is more likely. A $5 server and access to 1 Petabyte of data is a killer app and any garage startup can become a competitor to YouTube/Spotify/Netflix.
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To cut ourselves out the matrix imo we might want to do (in the immediate short term) what the BBC said a few years back (can’t find the reference article but there was one), which is , ..“Rip it up and start again” - BBC.
Back to 1997, simple code (HTML) and human connection might be a solid strategy for the short term
Early adopters (7% ish?) will love this i feel. It’s fun,honest, robust (HTML), duplicatable and keeps the autonomi USP’s intact.
The (party like it’s) 1997 approach allows people with no tech skills to build network effects for themselves and their friends, associates/creatives/sme’s/third sector, instead of big tech.
Simple, beautiful (Or ugly lol) websites and blogs for the win, with early adopters?
i’ve got three html sites (as a little concept) i’m working on , might publish them, migt not, depends on feedback i get from offline marketing/testing. Regardless,I do wish to publish some of my van life memories so i have them nice and safe.
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Mass use is only desirable if it delivers the fundamentals the network was built to provide, to those users.
If it pretends to do that but still leaves users open to surveillance and targeting it starts to fail in the worst of ways. It becomes the same old, same old numbers game where adoption is king and f**k users.
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While we are on the subject the antsnest.site server will be down briefly for a few mins.
If we had several of these servers (hint) this would be a very minor detail.
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I will also launch a portal once it has whitelist functionality, not all of us are good and brave like you, and evil exists!
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I would say any network, not the network. To me, if the technology has proven to be stable, the other fundamentals can and will be built upon it. Over a long enough period, evil is just noise, good wins in the end.
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Good only wins if enough people recognise the difference and we are in a very dark place because too many, including me took that for granted.
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I’m not saying that we will see the victory of good, there may be dystopian decades or even centuries, but once a technology is created, it cannot be stopped and the people who need it will use it sooner or later.
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Indeed and pretty soon now we will find the User Manual for the Pyramids 
anttp.antsnest.site is back up now. All zombie processes cleared…
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