• OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml
    7·
    3 years ago

    It’s surprisingly good. I made some Linux Korean Keyboard Installation Guides on it and have a few thoughts

    • The LBRY credit system is quite nice
    • It’s not federated like Peertube, but Peertube has a larger host of its own issues they won’t address
    • The UI blows competitors like Peertube, Streamable, etc away
    • The SEO of Odysee is fairly low - the same videos on Youtube appear significantly higher on Google’s front page
    • I’m not sure how LBRY is able to host videos at all, since they’re such huge, expensive pieces of data

    Overall, it checks a lot of boxes for being a solid project. If the company behind it is banking on growing bigger to become sustainable however, I don’t know if that’s going to happen - so for Odysee and LBRY’s sake, it better be profitable now.

    For completion, here’s the worldwide trend for the platform’s popularity:

    • Fisch@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      I don’t really undertstand how they host the videos either, which makes me a bit sceptical about it

  • Amicese@lemmy.ml
    6·
    3 years ago

    Apparently it’s free software and they can’t censor stuff on the blockchain, only on the web app. I also know PeerTube, which is a great program.

    The frontend is free software (but it isn’t copyleft); is the backend free software?

  • obbeel@lemmy.ml
    3·
    3 years ago

    You can use LBRY on Piped, apparently. Would I do it? I don’t know, maybe if they give me a good reason.

    • the_tech_beast@lemmy.ml
      3·
      3 years ago

      Yes, Piped does support streaming videos from lbry. But not all the videos. The content creator needs to sync their youtube channel on odysee, then only will this work. So you can’t stream all videos from lbry on piped.

      For that, I recommend https://lbry.bcow.xyz

  • Freesoftwareenjoyer@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    I tried to use it once and when I tried to post a comment under a video it told me I need to give them my credit card number. So I don’t see how it’s any better than YouTube in terms of privacy. PeerTube seems great though.