It's been a long time, but here I am back with a new episode of 'Kenny's 2 Minute STEEM Tips!"

If this is your first time stumbling across this series, welcome :-) I am doing my best to cover all of the ins & outs of the Steemit world in short, digestible posts. I know there is a pretty steep learning curve for this platform, and my goal is to help flatten it out just a bit :-)

If you've got any questions about the platform, please feel free to ask them in the comments; not only will I answer them (if I can), but maybe they'll be the basis for my next episode (in which case I will mention you as the inspiration).

The Series So Far:

1. Voting
2. Community-Driven Contests
3. Connecting IRL
4. Tagging Your Posts
5. Steem Power... Voting Power... What's the Difference?
6. Cross Pollination (or, helping each other build a following)
7. How much should I be posting? (plus 'your feed' and touching on votes again)
8. Leveraging Your Old Social Media Platforms
9. BlockTrades: The best tool for moving between STEEM and other cryptos (and thus to fiat)
10. Whatever Type of Content You Create, The STEEM Ecosystem Has a Place for You
11. Where Can You Actually See Your Stats, Transaction History, Etc.?
12. How to Comment (and how not to comment)
13. Where does the 'money' come from?
14. How Do Payouts Work?
15. "How Do I Private Message Other Steemians?"
16. How To Use Dtube (The Decentralized Video Platform)
17. Passwords/Private Keys - What Are They, and How to Protect Them!
18. Witnesses - What role do they play, and why should you vote for them
19. How to use AnonSteem to create an account INSTANTLY
20. Writing Your Introduceyourself Post! (Why it matters, and what to remember)
21. Perseverence, Improvement, and Not Having Expectations
22. Resteeming... How does it work? How to maximize the effect?
23. How to delegate SteemPower (and exactly what that means)
24. How To Redeem Your Rewards!! (please do this often)
25. Do I have to pay taxes on my STEEM?
26. How to buy & sell STEEM/SBD on the market... plus why & when to do so
27. How to Use SteemAuto (Curation Trails, Scheduling Posts, and Auto-Voting)
28. Flagging/Downvoting
29. Posting things from your blog on Steemit, Steemit's anti-plagiarism, and @steemcleaners
30. Setting up your Steemit profile, how to add profile & cover images
31. Just do what you love to do, your content should be a reflection of you
32. Dtube, part 2: Some clarifications & changes since the first video
33. How To See Where You've Been Mentioned (and other useful features of SteemWorld.org)
34. Unlocking your voting weight slider... and what the heck is an MVest?
35. Finding Content Creators to Follow & Support... and Sharing Them With the World
36. SteemPeak.com -> The Replacement for Steemit.com

Today: Episode #37

Making the Most of your DTube Posts

If you haven't gotten into using @dtube yet, I HIGHLY recommend it. It's so great being able to put videos straight onto STEEM, having another platform through which to browse & such, and of course it's great that the platform has its own account, and supports lots of the creators using it.

I put many of my videos ONLY on DTube, mostly those that are Vlogs and such. However, with some of my more important videos, those that I really want to have around for a long time, I also put them on YT & FB. I do this for two reasons:

1. FB & YT both often allow me to get much bigger reach with those videos.
2. Assuming they don't get flagged down for some reason, videos on both of those platforms stick around forever, while DTube videos are temporary.

That's right, when you upload a video onto DTube, it puts it on the IPFS (Interplanetary File System), but if you aren't seeding (just like torrents) those videos, then they are going to disappear after a while. @heimindanger & @dtube host them for us temporarily for us, but it would be quite expensive to do so indefinitely.

There are a lot of folks who also upload to @dtube & YT both, but unfortunately many of them end up double posting on STEEM (one for the dtube upload and one for the YT video itself). I really dislike the idea of double-posting, and that DTube video basically becomes useless after the IPFS file disappears.

My Solution

I just make one post, my @dtube upload. Once I've uploaded it there (with all the text description and such), I go in on SteemPeak and make some tweaks, moving up the dtube & ipfs links that are auto-populated and centering them with the video itself to look cleaner. I also go in and add links to any other places the video has been uploaded. I also replace the DTube hyperlink in the image to the YT post, so it will be viewable forever.

Taking it a Step Further

If anyone is interested (and maybe has the tech knowledge), I would LOVE to pool some funds together and run an IPFS server so that we can keep our videos on DTube permanently. Reach out to me in the comments, on Discord, or on Telegram (I'm 'kennyskitchen' everywhere) and let's make it happen.