They are more source available than opensource. The documentation on how to run nodes and how everything slots in together is either not there or terribly difficult to find. They have whitepapers, but if I want to host a node, I’m not going to read all that jazz to understand how things work.
Their homepage doesn’t have a “documentation” page or “admin guide” or anything. Just “download the client and get started!” even though there’s a webpage and it’s not clear where the generated crypto goes to, nor how to access it without them or when the website goes down and you don’t have a client.
With things like mastodon, peertube, funkwhale, hell even bittorrent, there are clear guides on how to do stuff.
LBRY always felt kinda shady to me because of that. They promised compensation for views and likes, but they seemed to be the major benefactors from the entire thing. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that the SEC shut them down.
They are more source available than opensource. The documentation on how to run nodes and how everything slots in together is either not there or terribly difficult to find. They have whitepapers, but if I want to host a node, I’m not going to read all that jazz to understand how things work.
Their homepage doesn’t have a “documentation” page or “admin guide” or anything. Just “download the client and get started!” even though there’s a webpage and it’s not clear where the generated crypto goes to, nor how to access it without them or when the website goes down and you don’t have a client.
With things like mastodon, peertube, funkwhale, hell even bittorrent, there are clear guides on how to do stuff.
LBRY always felt kinda shady to me because of that. They promised compensation for views and likes, but they seemed to be the major benefactors from the entire thing. It doesn’t surprise me one bit that the SEC shut them down.