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Rumble is making some big waves right now, actually paying uploaders for ads run on their videos and such. It’s still a small fraction of YouTube in terms of vi

Rumble is making some big waves right now, actually paying uploaders for ads run on their videos and such. It’s still a small fraction of YouTube in terms of viewership though.

bitwize 5y ago
It's also a den of right-wing disinformation and propaganda. Not something the average content creator wants to be associated with
- bmarquez 5y ago
  You might be thinking of BitChute or Brighteon (which literally has QAnon on the front page). The right-wingers on Rumble are fairly mainstream (and monetizable), like Stephen Crowder, Ben Shapiro, or Donald Trump himself.
  - arrow7000 5y ago
    I can't tell if this is a joke reply or not
    - lucaspm98 5y ago
      What about the parent comment would indicate a joke?
      - Applejinx 5y ago
        None of the people mentioned are mainstream.
        Bayart 5y ago
        I don't know this Crowder person, but Shapiro and Trump are absolutely mainstream. Enough that I, a guy who's not from the US and has no interest in its domestic politics, can get Shapiro memes.
        nitrogen 5y ago
        Regardless of one's opinion of him, it's pretty hard to say that a former president of the United States is outside the mainstream.
        spiderice 5y ago
        And Ben Shapiro's podcast is currently the 7th most downloaded podcast in the US[1]. That also qualifies as pretty mainstream. [1] https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/ https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/
        Applejinx 5y ago
        Their positions are not mainstream. His positions are not mainstream.
        nindalf 5y ago
        I can say plenty of negative things about all of those people, including the disingenuous ways all of them argue their points. But all mainstream means is that they have a large audience. Which all of them do.
      - ImPostingOnHN 5y ago
        The grandparent mentioned that Rumble was "a den of right-wing disinformation and propaganda. Not something the average content creator wants to be associated with." The parent then replied, seemingly to disagree, but then listed several examples of right-wing disinformationists and propagandists, not something the average content creator wants to be associated with, who inhabit Rumble
- godmode2019 5y ago
  That's the tactic, if you ban a group of people from your platform. They search for a competitor, then they can say oh that competitor is full of XYZ undesirable people, you don't want to use them. YouTube itself use to be the fringe. https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ is a site I have seen a lot of mainstream people promote. The problem is actually discovery, it doesn't really matter who sends you bytes it's about users discovering your content, which YouTube has the monopoly.

Rumble is making some big waves right now, actually paying uploaders for ads run on their videos and such. It’s still a small fraction of YouTube in terms of viewership though.

bitwize 5y ago

It's also a den of right-wing disinformation and propaganda. Not something the average content creator wants to be associated with

bmarquez 5y ago
You might be thinking of BitChute or Brighteon (which literally has QAnon on the front page). The right-wingers on Rumble are fairly mainstream (and monetizable), like Stephen Crowder, Ben Shapiro, or Donald Trump himself.
- arrow7000 5y ago
  I can't tell if this is a joke reply or not
  - lucaspm98 5y ago
    What about the parent comment would indicate a joke?
    - Applejinx 5y ago
      None of the people mentioned are mainstream.
      - Bayart 5y ago
        I don't know this Crowder person, but Shapiro and Trump are absolutely mainstream. Enough that I, a guy who's not from the US and has no interest in its domestic politics, can get Shapiro memes.
      - nitrogen 5y ago
        Regardless of one's opinion of him, it's pretty hard to say that a former president of the United States is outside the mainstream.
        spiderice 5y ago
        And Ben Shapiro's podcast is currently the 7th most downloaded podcast in the US[1]. That also qualifies as pretty mainstream. [1] https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/ https://www.podcastinsights.com/top-us-podcasts/
        Applejinx 5y ago
        Their positions are not mainstream. His positions are not mainstream.
      - nindalf 5y ago
        I can say plenty of negative things about all of those people, including the disingenuous ways all of them argue their points. But all mainstream means is that they have a large audience. Which all of them do.
    - ImPostingOnHN 5y ago
      The grandparent mentioned that Rumble was "a den of right-wing disinformation and propaganda. Not something the average content creator wants to be associated with." The parent then replied, seemingly to disagree, but then listed several examples of right-wing disinformationists and propagandists, not something the average content creator wants to be associated with, who inhabit Rumble
godmode2019 5y ago
That's the tactic, if you ban a group of people from your platform. They search for a competitor, then they can say oh that competitor is full of XYZ undesirable people, you don't want to use them. YouTube itself use to be the fringe. https://odysee.com/ https://odysee.com/ is a site I have seen a lot of mainstream people promote. The problem is actually discovery, it doesn't really matter who sends you bytes it's about users discovering your content, which YouTube has the monopoly.