Yeah, some kind of coordination server, or servers? That sounds like a process that wouldn’t necessarily have to be super centralized, maybe it could be just a local thing, “show me what nodes near me are viewing”.
I think a problem with this approach is that doomscrolling is biased heavily towards leechers and people who have data quotas (e.g. phones using mobile data). Someone has to foot the bill of serving up all that content, and it probably doesn’t make sense that relatively unstable connections like cell phones are serving it. And there’s probably also latency costs to worry about too. People aren’t going to doomscroll as long if they have to wait 5 seconds between reels.
Most people have unlimited data on phones nowadays, and same for over wifi, so I don’t see a bit of upload time capping most people. As to the 5 seconds of buffer time, I was thinking the system would try to keep like the next 20 upcoming videos pre-loaded on your device in order to eliminate that. Not doing it on demand each time you’d swipe.
Yeah, some kind of coordination server, or servers? That sounds like a process that wouldn’t necessarily have to be super centralized, maybe it could be just a local thing, “show me what nodes near me are viewing”.
I think a problem with this approach is that doomscrolling is biased heavily towards leechers and people who have data quotas (e.g. phones using mobile data). Someone has to foot the bill of serving up all that content, and it probably doesn’t make sense that relatively unstable connections like cell phones are serving it. And there’s probably also latency costs to worry about too. People aren’t going to doomscroll as long if they have to wait 5 seconds between reels.
Most people have unlimited data on phones nowadays, and same for over wifi, so I don’t see a bit of upload time capping most people. As to the 5 seconds of buffer time, I was thinking the system would try to keep like the next 20 upcoming videos pre-loaded on your device in order to eliminate that. Not doing it on demand each time you’d swipe.