Everytime I go on Odysee, the content there seems to drift more and more towards conspiracy theories, complete disinformation and nonsense, or at worst ultra racist / xenophobic / hateful rethoric. The staff has a history of just saying amen to everything, including white supremacist stuff.
I’ve been thinking of abandoning it (I would keep PeerTube as the alternative to YouTube for people who really don’t want to use YT). Out of curiosity, a little poll about my content:
@thelinuxEXP@personanongrata I mean, to play the “devil’s advocate”, there’s just as much toxic content on #YouTube … And if you include comments in that assessment, YouTube is actually probably worse than #Odysee (although I don’t have a #Google account, I can still see the comments). I love your content, but I’d need to take a closer look at #PeerTube to see if it’s actually worth opening yet another account somewhere (the last time I looked, it was a ghost town).
A heads up to content creators on #Twitch and #YouTube... You may be contacted by US Production companies to do work for them during the #WritersStrike.
Even taking a meeting with them is Strike Breaking Activity. The WGA will bar you, and you'll be dropped when the strike ends.
I don't think it's enough. Smaller, more niche creators who don't post as often can't rely on subscribers' payments because they can't create enough content to attract subscribers.
There needs to be a platform-wide monetization solution for this, such as revenue sharing, which YouTube Premium offers to partnered channels.
This week, we head over to Midgar to clean a fire bombed bar, a mechanical spider, a three-wheeled truck from the 50's and a familiar, but oddly named bike.
Amongst all the things we cleaned, we discussed what it would take to get people to move over to platforms like ActivityPub and to leave capitalism behind in general.