Yeah there are alternatives for sure, but it takes time to discover them. But many search engine are offering searching of videos. So may just be a good idea to start building a public index of all the videos. And it is 2025, the HN crowd here can usually just deploy their video to CDN. Many business are also just hosting their own videos. BTW forgot to mention Odyssey underlying protocol is https://lbry.com And... - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

LBRY 📚 - Another blockchain-based platform, LBRY features uncensored video, audio, images, ebooks and more. The decentralized library is community-controlled. LBRY allows monetization via its LBC cryptocurrency and has a growing subscriber base. - Source: dev.to / over 2 years ago

Https://lbry.com/ - decentralized marketplace and library for files. Source: about 3 years ago

This is probably easiest way to find about what LBRY is: https://lbry.com/. Source: about 3 years ago

Sounds like https://lbry.com/ ?? How did they solve or work around what you couldn't solve? Curious due to some deeply engrained dislike of anything centralized :p. - Source: Hacker News / about 3 years ago

The game dev environment they’re talking about is MakeCode Arcade. I’m also a big fan of it. There are a number of little handheld gadgets that you can use with MakeCode—scroll down on the homepage and there’s a section that shows them all: https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

I recently installed Ubuntu on a little Geekom mini PC for my 6 and 8 year olds to share. So far my 6 yo isn’t too into it, but her older sister mostly uses it for the games I’ve put onto it through Epic and Steam and programming using MakeCode, mostly for Arcade (https://arcade.makecode.com) (I have a couple of micro:bit-based handheld shields) and more recently getting into the awesomely simple networking that... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago

Alternatively, get her an emulator of an old 8 or 16 bit system, I started coding at the age of 10 in these systems, with books that were oriented for kids. https://www.atariarchives.org/ http://redparsley.blogspot.com/2016/08/input-magazine-retrospective.html https://archive.org/details/input-hi-01 Or if you prefer something more up to date, https://arcade.makecode.com/. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

Https://arcade.makecode.com/ Is great fun to use and made for kids. The forum (forum.makecode.com) is well moderated and safe too. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago

I'm not sure how this reduces the barrier to game developement. There are already lots of free assets and game engines designed for making arcade games that are a lot easier then say Unity or Unreal. Like https://arcade.makecode.com/ or https://microstudio.dev/ or https://scratch.mit.edu/. - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago