Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin
is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an alternative and I found odysee.com/ and it seems to be open source and less prone to censorship, I was wondering what you guys were using or thinking of switching too. I think Odysee is FOSS which is giant plus for me and I absolutely love it’s looks.
What do you guys think?
It’s interesting, that’s for sure. But the fact it is filled by nazis and the comment section is just swarming with antisemitism and bigotry is very much not something I’m willing to sift thru.
But the fact it is filled by nazis and the comment section is just swarming with antisemitism
ahh man, I know what you mean, but I generally don’t go there for politics. There are some educational videos and some really good creators who post in parallel with YT (Vertasium for ex) and I think they are lovely.
Sorry, but “nazis and antisemitism” is not politics. It is racism. Saying something like this is nazi-speech one should not repeat
Nazism stands for National Socialism - it’s a political ideology, so definitely politics.
Sorry, but “nazis and antisemitism” is not politics.
If you are talking about actual Nazis, well, I agree completely.
Saying something like this is nazi-speech one should not repeat
Saying something like what?
“Nazis is politics” is here in germany often used in a paraphrased way by far right people to justify their point of view, since nazi symbols and thing like that are forbidden by law.
By adopting such prases, even if unintentionally, one reproduces and legitimates such thinking.
You don’t have to go for the fascism, racism, and disinformation. By shear quantity alone, they’ll be in your next 2-3 videos if you let it autoplay the next recommended video.
I haven’t found a reliable way to just play my followed channels without manually making a queue of videos.
Why would you auto play and not just pick the videos you want to watch? I used to use odysee and I almost never saw racist videos. The comment section on the other hand was a cesspit. I believe you can actually pick what comment section you want and use comments from matador or something else.
https://i.imgur.com/7G45R9L.png I think this would help you
Unmoderated cesspool. Even the most benign videos have bigoted chaos gremlins spewing their shit in the comments.
Sadly, even if you were to somehow avoid all the crazy videos (of which there are a fuck ton more than regular content), the comment sections are nearly always filled with literal nazi wannabies and people being openly bigotted in every possible way. Videos completely unrelated like Veritasium videos always somehow find the comments leaning into how Group X is to blame for everything and other vile stuff.
Even their own announcement posts have people being openly antisemitic as their top comments.
I’d argue its proof a little moderation is actually needed for a site not to become a cesspool.
I heard about odysee a while ago but it felt dirty using it because of the huge amount of crypto and conspiracy content on it.
Odysee isn’t the main website the real use if Lbry desktop or Lbry gtk