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• sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sure, but other platforms do exist, and he could post to those as well as YouTube. Other creators do, such as Gardiner Bryant to PeerTube and Louis Rossmann to Odyssee.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure how they would scale

    Also avoid Odysee unless you are a nazis

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      People keep saying they want an alternative to YouTube, but then reject every alternative that exists.

      Odyssee and other YouTube alternatives tend to host far right content because that content was banned on YouTube, so those creators flocked to the alternative platforms. The sites themselves aren’t exactly encouraging that content, it’s just where people end up due to the loose rules. The best way to fight extremism on an alternative platform is to post less extreme content and drown out the less desirable content.

      That’s basically what happened here on Lemmy. At the start, it was mostly tankies and far left extremists, and gradually it became more mainstream as more mainstream leftists ditched Reddit and joined Lemmy.

      If you want an alternative to YouTube to succeed, you need to use alternative platforms that already exist.

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      • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        In the case of Odyssee it SAS founded by a far right extremest. It also isn’t decentralized at all

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