[ENDED]Flixxo, a social economy based on video sharing platform PopcornTime+RSK

[ajieafianto]

Let’s bring out 100 decentralized solutions for every centralization problem
We are in communication with most of our blockchain “competitors”
It is better to work together against some of the giants we are trying to overthrow

[camargoherrera]

Have you been able to look at ways to ensure that if I download a video in order to seed it that there won’t be any malicious content in it?

[fadlyzuld]

LBRY has no ads, Theta has no ads. Both work on their own consensus protocol. Theta will take a long time. LBRY is already live but its far from being userfriendly or fast for average joe. Lack of ads leads to people needing to pay with LBRY tokens -> buy them from exchanges or mine LBRY. Thats why it's still very small, even though its around a failry long time (crypto related). Viuly has a similar setup as Flixxo, but not much can be dfound out about their content distribution, looks kinds centralized. Their Token distribution also shows a lack of marketing possibilities and development funds. This will play out in the long term. I didnt look much into stream. To be fair, there are competitors and new startups everyday. I prefer the team to work on the platform rather then compare every project to each other. Flixxo obviously has its own strengths and if they play it out, they will be able to target a whole other target audience then LBRY for example. LBRY targets youtube viewers. But youtube viewers will never actively buy LBRY tokens to watch content.

[BrotDinos]

they do not even have a whitepaper, team has no experience in the field and they have no alpha so it is very hard to compare them to Flixxo. They also have no media presence other than that article.

Who/what are you talking about?

[Cameron_ws]

LBRY has no ads, Theta has no ads. Both work on their own consensus protocol. Theta will take a long time. LBRY is already live but its far from being userfriendly or fast for average joe. Lack of ads leads to people needing to pay with LBRY tokens -> buy them from exchanges or mine LBRY. Thats why it's still very small, even though its around a failry long time (crypto related). Viuly has a similar setup as Flixxo, but not much can be dfound out about their content distribution, looks kinds centralized. Their Token distribution also shows a lack of marketing possibilities and development funds. This will play out in the long term. I didnt look much into stream. To be fair, there are competitors and new startups everyday. I prefer the team to work on the platform rather then compare every project to each other. Flixxo obviously has its own strengths and if they play it out, they will be able to target a whole other target audience then LBRY for example. LBRY targets youtube viewers. But youtube viewers will never actively buy LBRY tokens to watch content.

Exactly - ultimately, no viewer will want to move from a free platform to a paid one without a *significant* increase in utility. It's difficult to be more convenient than youtube, so any system you have to buy into is at a disadvantage.

Flixxo, however, enables viewers to contribute to the internal economy without spending a penny, but offers them the option at a low cost.

[YLVolkoVa]

Good to see that some competitor try to enter this market , it means that this is necessarly a great idea! Hope flixxo will have a very decent platform on May!

funny thing is their community will act like they are the best lol but its like saying ford is better then bmw... in reality they do best only at what they know. And Competition is healthy, but in crypto we all have the same goal.

It is clear that the main goal is to make money, but it will be difficult to do this without project support! By the way, the price may be low for a long time, but one day it can dramatically go up!

[the_mori]

REDDIT AMA!

Just a few hours left until the team begins answering the questions! Make sure to get all your questions in:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Flixxo/comments/7ttsjn/now_askmeanything_with_the_flixxo_team/

[Cameron_ws]

The Flixxo Telegram group is almost at 4000 members! Come join the community if you need to find anything out, or just to talk Flixxo: https://t.me/flixxo

[the_mori]

REDDIT AMA!

You asked, and the team answered! Check out the thread for answers to your questions (some are still being answered):

https://www.reddit.com/r/Flixxo/comments/7ttsjn/now_askmeanything_with_the_flixxo_team/

[Cameron_ws]

Good to see that some competitor try to enter this market , it means that this is necessarly a great idea! Hope flixxo will have a very decent platform on May!

funny thing is their community will act like they are the best lol but its like saying ford is better then bmw... in reality they do best only at what they know. And Competition is healthy, but in crypto we all have the same goal.

It is clear that the main goal is to make money, but it will be difficult to do this without project support! By the way, the price may be low for a long time, but one day it can dramatically go up!

Good point - any project like this lives and dies by its community of creators, consumers and (while many try to avoid them) advertisers. We believe that what makes Flixxo special is that it provides a superior service for all three.

[abonarea]

I missed that Reddit AMA but will appreciate the effort for sharing the link to watch the answers for questions which were asked. I already started to read and found very interesting answers. I will continue reading and will recommend everyone to read because this worth to be.

[rayazasheva]

 it was a bit useless to set up a date and time that precise if they're gonna answer until Sunday. I thought they would set up one or two hours and answer to all the questions at once, eventually replying to follow-up questions.

[Karamen35]

this basically means, we launch in may and get a lot of users due to working technology. When the other platforms catch up and make IPFS really usuable on a grand scale, Flixxo can adapt and grow even bigger.

[davidjoshua]

we can have both workign at the same time, bittorrent and it's DHT were the main inspirations for IPFS, so it's not that different. I'll add that to the answer
Thinking more about flixxo. Why would anyone pay to watch videos on flixxo when they can watch them for free at youtube? Unless you have premium movies like netflix?

[Gucci999]

we can have both workign at the same time, bittorrent and it's DHT were the main inspirations for IPFS, so it's not that different. I'll add that to the answer
Thinking more about flixxo. Why would anyone pay to watch videos on flixxo when they can watch them for free at youtube? Unless you have premium movies like netflix?

You don't need to pay - you can just watch advertisements to get FLIXX tokens.
So, a user should start by watching ads? Accumulate flixx then watch other contents? But I thought the idea is to build a large user base first before attracting advertisers?
In the beginning, I assume there wont be any ads?

[jhairrobernas]

we can have both workign at the same time, bittorrent and it's DHT were the main inspirations for IPFS, so it's not that different. I'll add that to the answer
Thinking more about flixxo. Why would anyone pay to watch videos on flixxo when they can watch them for free at youtube? Unless you have premium movies like netflix?

You don't need to pay - you can just watch advertisements to get FLIXX tokens.
So, a user should start by watching ads? Accumulate flixx then watch other contents? But I thought the idea is to build a large user base first before attracting advertisers?
In the beginning, I assume there wont be any ads?

There's going to be a couple small chicken/egg problems here as they're trying to build a whole ecosystem of content / consumers / advertisers.  So obviously at first there may be issues with little to no ads, or little to no seeders, etc.. the team is working on solutions there.. for example they are doing things like setting up seeding servers to make sure content at least has a couple servers providing it until the network can fully establish.  Of the 3 "parties" involved (publishers/consumers/advertisers), ads are the easiest to get as they can easily be integrated via many platforms (or in this case, AdEx or similar) so there really isn't a shortage of options there.

[hassanchahrour]

When you watch videos on YouTube you're subjected to ads aswell. It's the same system  but pegged to an economic backend to distribute ad revenue. It makes a lot of sense

[pacamobradillo]

People who don't watch ads on Youtube, are not participating in their ecosystem and irrelevant for content creators and youtube. Same @ Flixxo. Nobody is watching content for free in that sense. And both platforms don't benefit/need these users.

[kevinantonio]

Most people start off as a free viewer. That's how youtube build up its audience... By offering free videos. It is really to imagine  someone will go to flixxo to watch ads just to be able to view videos later. There must be a stronger pull. Unless the content on flixxo is top notch and they can't find them on YouTube or other free video sites(like netflix, for example) , I don't think many will migrate to flixxo.
Has the flixxo team thought about this?

[tientien333]

People who don't watch ads on Youtube, are not participating in their ecosystem and irrelevant for content creators and youtube. Same @ Flixxo. Nobody is watching content for free in that sense. And both platforms don't benefit/need these users.

Think you are missing the point. If I am not wrong you can't watch any video on flixxo if you don't pay with flixx. It is not that you can watch a video with ads without paying. It is not about watching ads but paying to view that I think will be an obstacle. Correct me if I am wrong