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LBRY, company behind Odysee, shutting down after SEC Fine (archive.is)
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[–] 4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

I personally like Peertube but strongly dislike TILVids. They use Peertube but disable the federation bit. If it is the case that you can follow folks on other instances, it is even more unfair, because they block me from subscribing to content on their platform. Well, it isn't worse than some other video platforms, but it's certainly only taking, not sharing like we're used on the fediverse. I'd use another instance and i recommend everyone else to do so, too. (...As long as this is an alternative. Feel free to use TILVids, it's certainly better than Odysee or YouTube!)

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I actually talked to the admin of TILVids about this. And he realizes the double standard, you can still access things from RSS, but he's worked hard to get YT content creators to come over and the biggest concern those folks had was protecting their content. So he did turn off Federation to assuage those fears. He does push folks to spin up their own instances when they get big enough and even helps them with that if needed. He doesn't want TILVids to be a silo either. I definitely understand the feeling and even had to think through that as well.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Thank you for the balanced view. I hope some day we 'free' people will stick together and replace that fear with trust in each other (and good moderation tools to ensure it). I'd love to hear those exact 'fears' and see if they're warranted or artificial and this is just the excuse for protectionism. Because I myself am afraid that some of the free 'alternative' communities aren't big and stable enough to bear additional stress and being split up in several fractions. It feels the same with the latest split and defederation happening in/on lemmy with beehaw separating from instances like lemmy.world. That caused quite some confusion with new users and trouble for everyone. I don't think this is healthy for the platform as a whole. And splitting up any federated platform unnecessarily, will inevitably harm the platform as a whole.

    This being said, tilvids must have made some exellent choices, too. They attracted quite an amount of high quality content and seem to be generally thriving. I have to give them that... :-)

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