WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.920 Well hello and welcome to another Tribe update. Today's video is gonna be a 2 00:00:04.920 --> 00:00:08.880 little different as we just have some big announcement we want to share with 3 00:00:08.880 --> 00:00:12.920 you regarding the storage for Tribe Social. To announce this I'm just gonna 4 00:00:12.920 --> 00:00:15.560 roll this video. 5 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:48.920 Awesome so I hope you are as excited as we are. This is something we've had in 6 00:00:48.920 --> 00:00:53.960 the works for a couple months now but really is something that we wanted to do 7 00:00:53.960 --> 00:00:59.560 kind of at the very beginning of Tribe when we launched this in early 2020. Love 8 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:05.800 the idea of having a decentralized video hosting solution that essentially means 9 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:10.520 that there's so much redundancy, there's security, it's all these benefits and it 10 00:01:10.520 --> 00:01:16.560 means that in our minds it completely future-proofs your content so you never 11 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:20.280 have to worry about something getting deleted or moved or any of that. Once you 12 00:01:20.280 --> 00:01:25.920 upload it is there forever. We can't delete it. People who own the servers 13 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:31.680 can't delete it and mess up your files. It's pretty amazing. We have waited 14 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:35.920 a little bit to show this to you because it's taken a couple months to put it 15 00:01:35.920 --> 00:01:40.520 together. I do have a prototype of this working and a demo here on our beta 16 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:44.240 site so I'm gonna walk you through that demo. I just wanted to take a 17 00:01:44.240 --> 00:01:48.200 second and just kind of take a step back here and just show you kind of what this 18 00:01:48.200 --> 00:01:54.400 means for us moving forward. Let's jump into the demo. Alright so I'm on 19 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:58.120 our beta site here and you can get to this if you'd like to check it out 20 00:01:58.120 --> 00:02:02.840 yourself. It's just beta.tribesocial.io. I'm gonna scroll down here and 21 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:08.520 you'll see there's a new collection here for the new tribe storage. I'm gonna 22 00:02:08.520 --> 00:02:11.520 walk you through a couple demos here and just show you what's actually going on 23 00:02:11.520 --> 00:02:19.840 under the hood here. Let's click into this example. So we have a video 24 00:02:19.880 --> 00:02:24.480 playing which is kind of what you'd expect. We have all the transcoding here 25 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:30.240 working but the really cool thing is none of this is being hosted on AWS or 26 00:02:30.240 --> 00:02:36.840 S3 as it was previously. Now it's being hosted through this decentralized 27 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:42.440 network that we have connected into. So what's happening is you'll go to your 28 00:02:42.440 --> 00:02:47.860 dashboard as normal, you'll go to content, you hit add content, and then you'll go 29 00:02:47.860 --> 00:02:53.860 to upload video. Now when you upload anything to tribe we are now storing it 30 00:02:53.860 --> 00:02:59.780 in this decentralized network and so you don't have to do anything different. You 31 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:03.780 just upload your files, upload your videos as normal, and this will all 32 00:03:03.780 --> 00:03:10.220 happen sort of behind the scenes. So I'm gonna get a little technical here but I 33 00:03:10.220 --> 00:03:14.220 do want to just walk you through kind of what's happening behind the scenes. So 34 00:03:14.220 --> 00:03:19.220 you'll see if I'm letting this video play that all these little segmented 35 00:03:19.220 --> 00:03:22.780 files are being loaded here. Now these are coming from all the different 36 00:03:22.780 --> 00:03:28.780 servers and kind of spread out all across these 84 countries and so if I 37 00:03:28.780 --> 00:03:34.220 were to go over here and change this to the 1080p version for example, and of 38 00:03:34.220 --> 00:03:38.420 course by default it's on auto so it'll figure this out for you, you'll see that 39 00:03:38.420 --> 00:03:43.580 now we're getting 1080p content coming in here and it's all kind of happening 40 00:03:43.620 --> 00:03:47.220 behind the scenes. Now this is something we were doing for uploaded files before 41 00:03:47.220 --> 00:03:51.580 but it was pretty expensive doing it through AWS. We actually have our own 42 00:03:51.580 --> 00:03:55.780 transcoding server now and so we're transcoding these files for you into 43 00:03:55.780 --> 00:04:00.460 these different formats and again a lot more scalable because we can do a 44 00:04:00.460 --> 00:04:06.380 higher volume since it's all on our own platform now. And you'll notice that 45 00:04:06.380 --> 00:04:11.980 videos play so fast now. If you hit play and I just click over to about eight 46 00:04:11.980 --> 00:04:16.019 minutes you're typically waiting like one maybe one and a half seconds and the 47 00:04:16.019 --> 00:04:20.019 video just starts streaming immediately. So this is something we're very proud of. 48 00:04:20.019 --> 00:04:24.220 We've spent a lot of time testing and optimizing this just for that very high 49 00:04:24.220 --> 00:04:30.940 super fast playback for your users. So very exciting to see that actually 50 00:04:30.940 --> 00:04:37.980 working on a real website. It's been many months in the making so very cool to see 51 00:04:37.980 --> 00:04:42.060 it all happening pretty seamlessly right there. I do want to take a second 52 00:04:42.060 --> 00:04:47.060 and just show you some of what this means moving forward as far as having a 53 00:04:47.060 --> 00:04:54.620 decentralized video hosting solution. So why decentralization? Well we feel that 54 00:04:54.620 --> 00:04:59.420 decentralization is the future of the Internet. It's the exact opposite of 55 00:04:59.420 --> 00:05:02.420 centralization. 56 00:05:00.000 --> 00:05:16.200 Centralized systems where you put all of your files and everything you give it all to one company where you put it on one server, and there's just not as much security or stability as if you were to use all these different servers all over the world. 57 00:05:16.200 --> 00:05:30.700 So we have partnered with a company called Storj. It's S-T-O-R-J, and they are based here in Atlanta, and they have built a platform that allows us to take these files and distribute them all over the world. 58 00:05:30.700 --> 00:05:38.700 And so what's cool is that they are just a conduit to essentially reach all these different servers all over the world. 59 00:05:38.700 --> 00:05:58.700 And it's a very smart, very innovative company, and they have all these different nodes. There's about 14,000 different servers all over the world, and they're using cryptocurrency based on Ethereum blockchain to manage the data transfer and who gets paid what and all the distribution of that. 60 00:05:58.700 --> 00:06:08.700 It's really, really, really cool. I could definitely geek out about that at another time, but I really just wanted to focus on the fact that this is an open source technology. 61 00:06:08.700 --> 00:06:19.700 This is a company that's here in Atlanta that we trust. They've been around for I think seven or eight years. They have 40,000, 50,000 customers, and they're going to be here for a very long time. 62 00:06:19.700 --> 00:06:29.700 So the cool thing is that we're not giving our files to this company. We're just using them to sort of distribute these files all over the world. 63 00:06:29.700 --> 00:06:41.700 So we're excited about this because I don't think anyone else is doing this, essentially building a decentralized video hosting solution that's backed with cryptocurrency. 64 00:06:41.700 --> 00:06:54.700 I think that is about as cutting edge as it could be. At least when we were working with them, they also thought this was super innovative that we were essentially building a video hosting solution on top of this platform. 65 00:06:54.700 --> 00:07:01.700 So some of the benefits for you is that this is a much more affordable hosting solution. 66 00:07:01.700 --> 00:07:16.700 So before we had kind of an unlimited hosting plan for our founding members, and so we'd started to look at, hey, at some point we have to start limiting how much content, how many hours of content can be uploaded. 67 00:07:16.700 --> 00:07:27.700 This means that any limits we were thinking of, we're pretty much going to 5x or 10x those limits now because the cost is way, way cheaper, which essentially we're going to pass on to you. 68 00:07:28.700 --> 00:07:34.700 This is also sensor proof. So like I said, no one server can decide that your content cannot be shown. 69 00:07:34.700 --> 00:07:51.700 Even if that server did just completely shut down and had a fire or a power outage, your files are copied in so many different places and there's four levels of redundancy built in that that file, that video can never go away, which is really cool. 70 00:07:51.700 --> 00:07:58.700 It's hack proof, so no one can come in and just take all your files and download all these files without the right encryption. 71 00:07:58.700 --> 00:08:07.700 And it's future proof. Like I said, you're uploading these files one time, they're getting distributed in all these different places and essentially stored in all these different places. 72 00:08:07.700 --> 00:08:13.700 And so it just really future proofs this, in our opinion, in the best way possible. 73 00:08:13.700 --> 00:08:16.700 So let me answer a couple of questions you may have. 74 00:08:16.700 --> 00:08:23.700 One, does this cost any extra? No, this is 100% included with Tribe. 75 00:08:23.700 --> 00:08:29.700 We're not adding this as an upgrade. This isn't like a premium service. This is just for all users of Tribe. 76 00:08:29.700 --> 00:08:33.700 How do we move all your files to this new awesome solution? 77 00:08:33.700 --> 00:08:35.700 Well, your files have already been moved. 78 00:08:35.700 --> 00:08:44.700 We already have two copies. We have one in the previous hosting on AWS and we have all your files being moved into this new storage solution. 79 00:08:44.700 --> 00:08:51.700 Now we're doing a lot of testing to make sure every single thing is set up correctly and there's no interruption with your content. 80 00:08:51.700 --> 00:08:55.700 But we have been doing that in the background for the last couple of weeks. 81 00:08:55.700 --> 00:08:59.700 And the last question is, when will this be available? 82 00:08:59.700 --> 00:09:04.700 Everything I'm talking about is going to be available inside of November. 83 00:09:04.700 --> 00:09:09.700 So we're working on exactly getting you guys a date, but it will happen inside of November. 84 00:09:09.700 --> 00:09:13.700 We're just doing the last little bits here, but really excited to be rolling this out for you. 85 00:09:13.700 --> 00:09:16.700 Well, thank you so much for following along in this journey. 86 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:23.700 We so appreciate the fact that you guys have trusted us with your users, with your content. 87 00:09:23.700 --> 00:09:27.700 And we hope that this is going to be the first of many big announcements over the next few months. 88 00:09:27.700 --> 00:09:31.700 So stay tuned and we will catch you in the next update.