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Odysee/LBRY is just moving to a new lord's fort. If it's successful it will at best buy a year or two of good behavior before they do the same thing, or somethi
by Schroedingersat 4y ago
Odysee/LBRY is just moving to a new lord's fort. If it's successful it will at best buy a year or two of good behavior before they do the same thing, or something worse.
I had high hopes for the nebula model, but the platform owners have already clearly telegraphed their intent with regard to harvesting user data, nickel and diming, and at some point inserting ads.
The only solution is a platform that respects everyone. peertube is a good contender, although curation and payment for content (which are separate problems to distribution and discovery) need work. Tilvids seems to be doing okay curation-wise (although adoption is low).
Perhaps for payment, a client that locally tracks your view count and then stochastically tells you to deliver your payment to a particular creator to avoid a middleman holding the tin and sticking their fingers in.
- 4ad 4y agoLBRY is a distributed p2p platform. Nobody can censor anyone. Odysee is just a website frontend for LBRY. Of course, Odysee operators can choose who to show on their website.
- Schroedingersat 4y agoOdysee is a centralised service with centralised comments that makes centralised decisions about which videos to platform and how to rank them. Its relationship to LBRY is no different to uploading a youtube video and posting a magnet link to a torrent of the same video in the description except you have to pay their cryptocoin (which they've reserved about 50% of for their own purposes) to add the link. They could remove lbry at any time and most of their user base would not even notice. Pretty good heuristic for these things is to assume cryptocoins are always at least one scam.