The infrastructure cost of serving video should fall as your audience grows — not spike. kinos.fyi is a video distribution layer where popular content is the least expensive content to deliver.
On every existing platform, the economics are identical: you create, they serve, they monetize. When your video blows up, your origin server spikes — or the platform extracts more. kinos.fyi inverts this completely. The distribution swarm grows exactly when origin load would otherwise spike. Popularity becomes self-sustaining infrastructure.
kinos.fyi uses PING — a direct point-to-point notification protocol. Your followers are contacted when you publish, not whenever a feed algorithm decides to surface your work. No platform inbox. No discovery tax. No middleman deciding which of your audience sees what you made.
Every video bundle carries a complete provenance chain. When someone shares your work across the network — even without hosting a single byte of your video — the attribution stays intact. The content remains discoverable. The canonical record is yours.
Publishers choose their strategy. Clients fall back gracefully through each. Viewers just watch — no installs, no swarm management, no configuration.
Your video serves from your origin server as a standard HTTP resource. Full control, no swarm dependency. The correct choice for private, archival, or low-traffic content — and the universal fallback when nothing else is available.
SimplestEvery viewer who watches automatically joins the swarm via WebRTC and seeds chunks to concurrent viewers for their session. Infrastructure cost inverts with popularity — your most-watched content becomes your cheapest to serve. No special software needed.
Peer-assistedVideo is decomposed into fixed-size content-addressed chunks at upload time. Each chunk is a first-class artifact, resolvable by any node in the network. Streaming a video makes you a distribution point. Automatic mirroring, no WebRTC required, browser and native identical.
Network-nativeOn every CDN-backed platform, your most popular content is your most expensive to serve. The platform monetizes your viewers to cover it — and keeps the surplus.
On kinos.fyi, the swarm grows when viewership grows. Origin bandwidth cost approaches zero for active content. Long-tail availability is maintained by mirror nodes — participants across the network who hold content they care about.
You don't provision for virality. The network handles it.
From a clearnet visitor who's never heard of peer distribution, to an always-on backbone seeder running silent infrastructure — no tier is second-class for doing less.
Normal browser. Streams and seeds automatically during playback. No install, no awareness of the protocol. The video just plays.
Hosts metadata, thumbnails, and content addresses. Shares and attributes video across the network without holding a single video byte.
Deliberately holds video content. Seeds to the swarm. Maintains long-tail availability for content they care about archiving.
Self-hosted Perch instance. Publishes PostBundles with full provenance. Owns the canonical record of their work and notifies followers directly.
Always-on seeder running alongside a Perch instance. No special protocol — speaks the same format as everyone else. Pure silent infrastructure.
The delivery layer is invisible.
Creators upload. Viewers watch.
The swarm is infrastructure — not a feature they manage.
— Phoric Video Delivery Specification
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