I wanted to wait until I got back to break the news: I have officially joined 3Speak!
Full Disclosure: Oracle-D & I have agreed to a 50/50 equity partnership in 3Speak.
The goal of 3Speak is to give a home for all of the deplatformed content creators out there.
https://3speak.online/ is built to be a high-performance platform, boasting the ability to host HD videos & live streams, forever. The reason we can achieve elite performance is because 3Speak is specially designed for content creators who have been demonetized, shadow banned, or outright banned/censored from centralized platforms. We don't host illegal content, as long as the content is legal, it will be supported by 3Speak. The goal is to have a respectable, fair & censorship resistant platform that puts creators first, not the big ad companies.
3Speak is a perfect market/timing fit, and I could not be more happy to join forces with the well-respected powerhouse that is Oracle-D!
Strap on your seat belts, we are just getting started!
Super Excited to 3Speak
Bring it On Dan & Oracle-D
Please reconsider where you are hosting this if you chose the UK. Your chosen paradigm for what constitutes illegality is seriously flawed.
"3. No illegal content (as defined under British law)."
This is a huge problem. The UK has very expansive hate and offensive speech net. Once a content creator banned elsewhere sees you are adhering to British law, they will be looking for the exists. Host this in the US or suffer for it. I'm not being hyperbolic here, and I am upvoting this before the 15 minute window for visibility.
The videos, livestreams and livestream VOD's are not stored on servers in the United Kingdom.
So why adhere to UK law and not some other jurisdiction? That is not secondary to where they are stored in terms of your pitch supporting free speech. Given the current political climate, how is this not obvious?
Thoughts @brianoflondon?
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I've applied for a creator account for myself and I'll be evaluating it.
I'd love to find a good livestream alternative to Periscope and YouTube. I'm so pissed off with YouTube who send me emails almost every night placing all my Tommy Robinson videos into limited state.
Check out @vimm while you wait. If nothing else, simulcast when 3speak goes live!
I like the fact you actually work!
If this is true that it is hosted in the UK, then you are absolutely correct that hosting needs to be moved to another country pronto! The UK's laws on what is and isn't illegal are far to vague and broad, and would endanger the platform. The service needs to be moved to a country like Norway, Switzerland, or the US, in order to avoid government mandated censorship of legitimate topics.
Nothing for 3Speak is hosted on servers in the UK.
Excellent! Good to know!
How does UK law compel you? Are you HQ'd there? If you think hosting content outside of the UK absolves you of UK law, why have that in your FAQ?
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Thank you for your comment. Actually we have to update our FAQ to reflect the actual situation. Be assured that the content is not hosted directly in the United Kingdom but in several other locations close to the UK.
Edit: The FAQ page is now updated: https://3speak.online/intl/faq
Thanks for clarifying. Good to know. That was very alarming to read considering the UK is almost Orwellian in it's attempts to curb free speech. I've been following many related stories. Best of luck and looking forward to seeing where this goes!
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We always appreciate feedback. If you would like to stay in touch feel free to join our Discord server: https://discord.me/3speak
I will also add that a large number of already banned content creators are British.
@tommyrobinson (Currently on STEEM), Sargon of Akkad (Has a STEEM account), Milo Yiannopoulos, Count Dankula, Paul Joseph Watson... These are just off the top of my head.
Tommy Robinson is an ass. Seriously, a thug and an idiot. Your average Joe don't like him much in Britain.
Almost 40,000 people got out to vote for him. Those of us who have had access to the behind the scenes of his social media and direct comms channels for a few years also know a very different story of the level of public support (which most people will not express in public).
Idiot: he's one of the brightest people I know and work with on a daily basis. You might take a British class based approach to him because of his accent but the guy is seriously smart. If you know the signs, you can see it in his ability to process information and get points across while speaking off the cuff.
But I do love that so many of his enemies completely underestimate him. As for being a thug, he knows how to punch back. He's a lot more controlled than when he was a young kid and before he was a father but he's never going to take shit from anyone.
How convenient that most people will not express their support for him in public. Kinda makes it hard to quantify then.
And I certainly don't judge him based on class or accent given my background. Lol.
That has ZERO to do with the argument I am trying to make. How is your opinion of his character relevant?
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I like to chime in when someone not from the UK mentions him. It's my new thing. You will note I didn't respond to your argument merely to the addendum which mentioned dear Tommy.
Looks like joshman doesn't like the comment, but I was thinking this too haha and when I saw some people happy he was on Steem 🤦♀️
Yeah, I got that impression too :0D
I'm glad I'm not the only one! The frothing nethered joy of some on his arrival was quite alarming!!
Well, congrats on adding absolutely no value to the conversation.
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I beg to differ but such are the vagaries of free speech!
I did a write up on this while you were gone. An exciting project. Hopefully some big names are drawn to Steem because of this initiative.
There are a lot of video content creators being attacked by the established social media sites. While I might not agree with their views, I do agree they should not be censored or shut down. This bogus line about hate speech is ridiculous. It is just an excuse to censor.
I am glad you designed a platform to provide for them and where the content remains. This is a wonderful idea.
Do you have any plans regarding evergreen rewarding? The reward window limited to 7 days is big turn off for creators. If it can be made everlasting, we will have much easier time to convince people to switch even for creators that aren't deplatformed (yet).
Yes. We have plans to support content creators for more than the 7 days they can earn through Steem. Follow our Blog for News, Updates and Announcements.
I would like to know about it and looking forward to more details..!!
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This looks promising and perhaps a game changer.
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What is the meaning of the name "3Speak"?
3 = > Free
Speak = > Speech
3Speak => Free Speech
Awesome to see you behind this as the opportunity to improve upon video content delivery is great given everything happening in the decentralized environments being created! Look forward to more details!
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You will always be full of fun and great stuffs. Thanks for letting us know this. see a big picture with your collaboration with @Oracle-d.
Though am not well informed on how 3Speak works. I'll check out ASAP
Would I be a good fit at 3speak?
I've been deplatformed from FB completely, never allowed back, and lost a lot of activism pages, groups, and events.
I've been active on YT for 10+ years, shadowbanned for most of that time, and they appear to be making moves to delete me for good soon.
I talk about cannabis, not necessarily legal though. I'm an activist who uses civil disobedience (breaking unjust laws peacefully and in public) to make positive change in the world. My wife @MediKatie has cancer that is kept in remission by cannabis oil. We have fought prohibition for many years, and now there is "legalization" here in Canada, but most of what we do remains illegal. That's why we have to go on, but we're being shut down and censored everywhere we go, because we speak the truth.
I've almost stopped doing videos, because YT censors them and DTube doesn't really work.
But the "legal only" thing might be a problem, I guess?
I also talk about Liberty, free speech, privacy, philosophy, and conspiracies (things the mainstream platforms do not tolerate).
You should apply!
Congrats for this achievement!
Congratulation my friend for officially join of 3speak. Good luck to you to achieve next level.
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👍
If dan and oracle-d is here of course its an awesome Project would like to try it.
Just a few minutes ago we spoke in the Steem telegram group about your plans with a streaming platform 😅
And here's your announcement, fantastic timing 😄
I wish you much, much success @theycallmedan
Have a great day
Tom
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3speak shows a lot of promise. That was the reason I was so interested in it when I first came across it.
My excitement remains in all time high for 3speak, but learning that I must have been banned, demonetized or censored in any other platform to be a part of it was the end of my journey within 3speak.
I love the concept and wish it well from the sidelines.
It is a great place to put your resources into. Keep it up, Dan.
This is going to be home to a lot of creatives to feel free to create.
View counter and permanence of storage. Boom! Awesome stuff!
First saying that you dont support illegal content (depends on country) and then that you want to support shadowbanned content creators is a paradoxon.
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People are often banned for unpopular but totally legal opinions. 3Speak give these creators a new platform where they can express their opinion as they want. For more information about this checkout our FAQ's: https://3speak.online/intl/faq
It's a beginning
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2speak , i believe this will have good impact in the community. this will boost up the moral of the writers, mining steem is not only what you can speak but , it is the way you speak the ideas and the passion on how you interact with the viewers and the readers.
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This is really cool move @theycallmedan
The platform will rock for sure... Best wishes to both of you.
Can you share how this platform is censor resistant? With D.Tube videos are addressable via IPFS, and as long as someone pins them they are very hard to censor. What does 3Speak do?
I have a question:
When the testing mode will be ended? Because i want to start using 3Speak for my vlogs, but i heard that is really hard to be a tester.
GodSpeed ! 💙
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Interesting! Resteemed this article. Thank you for writing @Oracle-D. I am Japanese Oracle-D content creator.
A little confused
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the start is amazing the journey will be more epic all the best
Please. I'm still confused about the 3Speak! I need more light on this. Thanks @theycallmedan
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Congrats...
Have you signed up any of the outcasts so far?
That's gonna be a great marketing strategy since there is a real need for a censorship resistant platform.
Awesome partnership by the way ;)
Now, that's an announcement! I am not a video creator, but having your content hosted forever is a must for a video platform to lift off. And you guys offer it. Together with being censorship resistant, you have a strong niche, I believe.
I checked out a few videos. They run very smoothly, including when I tried to skip to a certain time. Maybe the servers won't handle it exactly the same when the platform becomes more popular, but right now it runs perfectly.
Plus, both you Dan and Oracle-D guys understand business (and marketing), so if all goes well I see 3Speak growing fast, at least in its niche. One more attraction point to our Steem ecosystem!
Batter
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wow! great news! Congrats!
Is this a Steem Project, will it have delegation?
Will it have a token?
Where will it trade?
Hello!, I invite you to follow me, I upload content made by me, I hope you help me by going through my blog, thank you very much <3
Cool development Dan. I shall watch with interest. I stopped making much video content using DTube for a variety of reasons. I've seen a few people posting with 3speak and meant to look into what it is properly.
I think if this is marketed intelligently to the mainstream - like steemit should have been - it could bring that mass adoption to steem from a video content perspective. I can see this snow balling if people who've been persecuted on YouTube come to 3speak and are actually supported, and earn better, than they were previously on YouTube. If that happens, all the other YouTubers will notice and wonder why they're creating on a centralised platform when there's a better alternative out there.
Nice move! I hope you had a blast on your honeymoon. All the best 🙂👍
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That's a great news.
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This is really awesome. I think you are the perfect guy to get this run!
Maybe we can support account creation for projects like yours, with something like "Burn Post". With the different, we use the Steem for creating new accounts for intstant sign up.
Forevah evah and evah evah? Nice man! Good luck with this and hope it will bring a lot of people on Steem.
They shadowbanned me on FB just because I promoted steem. Mothafuckaz!
See ya around! Peace yo!
Mothafukaz xD
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W8, is this on steem?
Yes.
Kewl. That's what I want to hear :)
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I was blocked in twitter and youtube as well. On twitter because I was promoting steem and on youtube because I was saying the truth about something. You can't imagine how I will feel better if they let me in 3speak. They still don't accept everybody and I don't know why.
What? Twitter banned you for promoting Steem? What exactly did you write?
nothing, I was just sharing my steemit links for a year, once a day, no spamming, and they blocked me and removed all my content, followers and everything.
Storing huge amount of data comes with a lot of costs for traffic and actual storage and encoding. For more informations about 3Speak please checkout our FAQ: https://3speak.online/intl/faq
If it's 50/50 partnership, so @theycallmedan may decide things as well.
3speak ?
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Yeah
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Yes on steem :)
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Yeeee :)
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Great news... I hope oneday they will accept my application.. I applied but .... I guess I am not eligible for 3speak... :( :(
Ha! I knew something big was about to come and there it is.
May all those who have been struggling to get their content seen because of all sorts of censorship, find the perfect shelter.
Great news Dan and @oracle-d!!
Hey Dan,
How are you doing? How is your new bride? I hope you guys are doing wonderful.
This project is a great initiative and a once in a lofe time opportunity for Indie artist like us. The applications are limitless. Talk about about hosting an online concert and more. I speak for most people when I say "we appreciate what you guys are doing". Cheer!!
Haven't tried it, maybe I should.
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Very good news and this union. Congratulations for this great and excellent news that makes us very happy.
I post alt-health topics and I self-censor on YT, so I have not been banned. You have to watch it with words over there such as "fermentation" and "detox." Can't be having promotion of ways to avoid antibiotics, lol.
Best of luck for this new endeavor though I wish they were a STEEM dApp. You might want to go into the discord group of "decentralized truth" and also add the tag "informationwar" to this post to find your peeps and help them find you.
There is almost no information on steemit about 3speak.
This is the first public announcement ;)
I think this is what I need! Gonna dive in and check her out! Thank you
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Congratulations @theycallmedan!
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