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Re:A better business model for video folks by Seirdy on Thursday July 08, 2021 @10:50PM (#27780037)
Unfortunately it uses cryptocurrency/blockchain nonsense. A better alternative is PeerTube, which is part of the Fediverse; people can share videos, comment, and post across Mastodon, PeerTube, Pixelfed, and others seamlessly.

Plus, you can pick (or host!) an instance that agrees with your moderation preferences, and block instances that don't (e.g. alt-right and troll havens). The distributed/federated approach to moderation and hosting scales well with a limited budget.

Re:A better business model for video folks by devetec on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:18AM (#27780444)
It's not nonsense, it works. But yeah, PeerTube is a good alternative too!
Re:A better business model for video folks by devetec on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:20AM (#27780451)
However, discoverability and ease of use are always factors. With Odysee, you just use it like YouTube, not much is different.
Re:A better business model for video folks by kilodeca on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:13AM (#27780419)
It would be nice if Peertube wasn't developed using Nodejs.
Re:A better business model for video folks by skinkestek on Friday July 09, 2021 @07:39AM (#27782633)
Why does it matter (unless you think about contributing to the codebase). I'm a vocal opponent of unnecessary Javascript (TypeScript is fine) but I never care what other people use for their backend.