Comment on Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads

• DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Sorry… I apologise for the misunderstanding and mini-rant.

  You appeared to me to be asking a rhetorical question in a sarcastic manner and implying that they aren’t really committed to free speech, and the reason I was frustrated was because I’m quite sick of this platform being labelled as right/far-right when it isn’t. YouTube was just an example one mainstream platform that censors content.

  If you’d like to see an example of how committed they are to free speech, I can’t really easily provide a direct source, but I do recommend taking a look at some of LBRY’s earliest posts on Odysee

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  • SteveFromMySpace@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll be mindful of my wording in the future. I want to reiterate that this was a genuine question.

    I do think if a lot of people are telling you the site is right wing then maybe you should take a broader look around. You don’t have to be participating in that garbage for it to be occurring.

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    • DreitonLullaby@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well I know there’s a lot of right-wing content on there, but I also know there’s a lot of other content there, too. So I don’t think it’s okay when people call it a “right-wing” platform, just because it appears to have more of it on there compared to other platforms.

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      • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The creators of the site allow Nazi content and say that doesn’t break their terms of service. On every other site, Nazism and promoting that ideology is not allowed.

        This is what you are arguing for. A site that differentiates itself from other video hosting platforms by giving Nazis a safe space.

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      • IdleSheep@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Why is it not okay to call it what it is? If you openly allow nazis into your site, you have a nazi site. I’m sorry but there’s just no way around it.

        Either you nip that garbage in the bud or your site is overrun by far right nut jobs, which is what happened with odysee.

        Of course nobody wants to use the site. Why would they?

        It’s the nazi bar problem. You allow one nazi to enter your bar, then that nazi brings his nazi friends, and before you notice it you have a nazi bar and no one wants to visit.

        Odysee doesn’t “appear” to have more right wing content, it objectively does. The majority of people who migrate to it are wackos who got banned in other places for their extremist views.

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