Hello Salty Army, YouTube blessed Salty with another strike, so we will be in YouTube jail unitl 4/2/21. Please check out Odysee, Bitchute, and Rumble for videos. We will attempt to do our livestreams on Odysee at our regular times (Sun, Wed, and Fri at 5:30pm Pacific time). Livestreaming is new for them, so hopefully it runs relatively smoothly. If not, it may be a bit of a shorter show. Please be patient with us as we figure out our Plan B for livestreaming. We hope to avoid Dlive, but it will be our emergency back up.
Take Care, Mrs. Salty
At this point I’m just responding to see if you continue responding. Make my day. Typing costs me nothing and you clearly have no idea what you’re talking about. Bigot.
spez: I also find it hilarious that you are voting down my comments. Really drives home how petty you must be.
I don't agree with you, but whoever is downvoting anyone's comments is an idiot. It doesn't affect anything.
(1) “There is no connection between crypto currency and serving videos”
A :: LBC is used to incentivize participation and in the case of Odysee used to stake videos to increase their visibility. Crypto Currency rewards are distributed through promotions for creators, viewership and engagement (I’d assume this will taper off once the dedicated funds are depleted), and daily and achievement based rewards for users. In the hopefully not too distant future LBC will also be used to transact between uploaders and hosts for their services.
Videos are not stored in the blockchain directly. Instead, the blockchain in this case is used to store an index of available content and associated attributes such as cost, owner, and location on the network of hosts with a copy. If you take issue with this structure for delivering content then you kind of are taking issue with P2P generally since it’s effectively just a less ephemeral way to organize swarms to network peers.
I do absolutely agree that minting a token and then pumping it is bullshit and I have my concerns about Odysee as a platform along with LBRY as the underlying protocol (no decentralized management of the foundation as far as I am aware being a prime example) but that doesn’t change any of the information above.
(2) “ If this was something like mastodon, if the ledger was storing communications...”
A :: I addressed this in the previous paragraphs, but I do want to point out that I don’t think that crypto in general or LBRY specifically have revolutionized anything. I do think that they’ve brought together a bunch of ideas that have existed for quite some time and implemented an incentive structure and internal payments system that might give them more longevity that something like a BitTorrent Sync, or whatever BitTorrent was calling those media packages. One of the biggest things they’re delivering is better marketing which is essential for a distributed or decentralized system that relies on a critical mass of participants (See: Why I Hate Leechers).
Also, that’s not how Mastodon works at all. I’ve run mastodon instances on a VPS. The data lives in local storage.
(3) “ You're also wrong to just leap out into the world making claims you don't understand...”
A :: At this point that’s more a description of how you’re behaving. I’ve made no assumptions about your knowledge on the topic outside of you behaving like a petulant child. You’re the one who is assuming superiority with effectively no information. All that said, I’d love to hear a rebuttal. Maybe don’t resort to ad hominem this time. Tell me why I’m wrong.
I already told you why you're wrong. Nothing you said contradicts my statements or makes any point. There is still no particular reason to launch a new crypto currency in association with a video sharing site. There is no fundamental connection between crypto currency technology and video sharing.
There are two ifs on 2. Two of them. Mastodon does not work that way. But is is an example of a kind of platform that could benefit from such approaches. You could use that approach for comments or discussions on Odysee. What I'm saying, is that there's a plausible connection between cryptographic ledgers and ensuring that communication is unalterably recorded, and that this is not a function that a video-sharing website requires. And it couldn't be provided for videos without the improbably expensive step of encoding the videos.
You're writing paragraphs of irrelevant asides. Someone started off with the ludicrous comment that odysee is ahead of the competition because it uses "blockchain tech" and that this is a priori superior for "free speech purposes".
That is a fatuously stupid comment to make, and clearly OP has no idea what any of these terms mean, and you stanning that comment continues to be also fundamentally a stupid thing to do.
This doesn't mean Odysee is a scam or needs to die. Chill.