Digging into Streamplace. It appears to store video and audio tracks as blobs and then uses HTTP content ranges to stream the data. Micro.blog uses HTTP live streaming, very different. But I could cross-post to Streamplace.
@manton streamplace uses http live streaming, but uses a newer format called CMAF (common media application format) so it can use ranges and thus keep connections better versus regular file by file segments
there are more pros (and cons!) to using cmaf but that’s most of the reason why i like it. plus having only one file to keep around