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Odysee is going from strength to strength. It's quite solid now as a platform; just needs more content creators. As YouTube continues to ban creators for any an

Odysee is going from strength to strength. It's quite solid now as a platform; just needs more content creators. As YouTube continues to ban creators for any and no reason at all, they'll find their way to these competing platforms. Rumble is also pretty good but I've noticed it tends to attract more right wing American creators. That's fine if that's what you're into but I am not American and prefer a wider range of content. I also like that Odysee is built on a decentralised platform: LBRY. Even if the Odysee begins censoring discussion on their hosted frontpage, LBRY can continue to serve literally anything.

thematrixturtle 4y ago
I had never heard of this before, and it seems to be a shallow clone of YouTube with (surprise!) crypto grafted on. The videos all seem to be copied from YouTube, and the first "Top featured" video had racked up all of 188 views in the past week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY
- Gareth321 4y ago
  I'm not sure why it would be surprising or bad that creators upload to YouTube and alternative platforms. I don't like exclusivity and I'm glad that that doesn't appear to be a major strategy for any of them. As for engagement, what I understand you to be arguing is that because Odysee doesn't have the same userbase as YouTube, it is bad? Can you see why this argument would invalidate anyone trying to compete with any incumbent in any market? My comment was really to reinforce that the platform is competitive now. As I said, it just needs more content creators.
- timbit42 4y ago
  The reason there are a lot of videos copied from YouTube is Odysee has a feature for importing all of the videos you created on YouTube. This plugin will tell you when you are watching a YT video that also exists on Odysee: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odys...

thematrixturtle 4y ago

I had never heard of this before, and it seems to be a shallow clone of YouTube with (surprise!) crypto grafted on. The videos all seem to be copied from YouTube, and the first "Top featured" video had racked up all of 188 views in the past week. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY

Gareth321 4y ago
I'm not sure why it would be surprising or bad that creators upload to YouTube and alternative platforms. I don't like exclusivity and I'm glad that that doesn't appear to be a major strategy for any of them. As for engagement, what I understand you to be arguing is that because Odysee doesn't have the same userbase as YouTube, it is bad? Can you see why this argument would invalidate anyone trying to compete with any incumbent in any market? My comment was really to reinforce that the platform is competitive now. As I said, it just needs more content creators.
timbit42 4y ago
The reason there are a lot of videos copied from YouTube is Odysee has a feature for importing all of the videos you created on YouTube. This plugin will tell you when you are watching a YT video that also exists on Odysee: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odys...