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> entirely filled with conspiracy videos Better than having the content be deleted, though. Choose for yourself what you want to watch, and don't choose for o

• kanox 6y ago
  My point is that there's almost nothing else to watch.
  • olah_1 6y ago
    Most people use Bitchute only for the channels that they're already subbed to on youtube. So you log in to Bitchute and just see your subs which are like 5 channels that got deleted from youtube. Subbing is the curation system.
    • monkeywork 6y ago
      and how do you discover someone to sub to them.
      • olah_1 6y ago
        Usually through their YouTube channel or twitter or telegram. “hey, I just got my channel taken down on YouTube. Sub to me on bitchute instead” Personally, I’m not confident bitchute is technically competent enough to implement a real discovery algorithm. They haven’t made any discernible technical improvements to the site since they first launched.
        • monkeywork 6y ago
          no what you are describing is how I keep up with someone after I've already found and followed them (ie Twitter / Youtube / other social platform). I asked about discovery ... because at the end of the day that is the difference maker.
          • olah_1 6y ago
            I know what you’re asking. That’s why I said > Personally, I’m not confident bitchute is technically competent enough to implement a real discovery algorithm.
• dkh 6y ago
  In practice, it’s nowhere near this simple. Even if a platform has “unlimited” capacity to store and serve content, the real estate available in places to advertise/surface this content (homepage, suggested/related content, etc.) is finite and generally tiny by comparison. So right off the bat you have a nontrivial task here to solve that will involve bias, algorithms to determine why a piece of content should be shown over another, etc. And that's just the beginning. The bigger, more abstract, more difficult task is implementing the above as well as all other aspects of the platform in such a way that it fosters the sort of community you are envisioning, attracts the sort of user you're building for, and this is incredibly nuanced. If you want the platform to appeal to, say, creators of animated or short narrative content who are interested in friendly conversation and critique, you aren't likely to do this if they visit the platform and find nothing but fringe political content and the perhaps less-than-friendly conversation this may attract. Ironically, building a platform that appears to be fairly unbiased and balanced that puts the control in the hands of the user generally involves an immense amount of curation and control behind the scenes to achieve this. And similarly, failing to put tons of work into this, opting to let the users decide everything organically, etc., will likely find your platform's content and community dominated by whatever group is able to rally the most like-minded users to join up the fastest. You're at the mercy of the mob, and most likely, you won't enjoy what they've brought with them.