"Odysee is a bunch of neonazi crap!"
For the last two weeks, I've been trying to kill a boss on Oldschool Runescape Leagues - The Inferno. Some of my online friends knew of this goal, so I wanted to make a video of the final challenge.
Most people, when making a video, immediately upload it to Youtube (or TikTok.. until next January Oo). Myself included - Many years ago, I had an active Youtube channel. But for the past couple years, anytime I made a video, it went up on Odysee instead.
There are three things I want in regards to videos:
- The people I care about can see them
- The videos can be archived and found in the future
- The content helps communities I care about
Youtube ticks off the first two boxes.. But uploading to Youtube doesn't "help the communities I care about". Youtube is actively hostile to users through ads and tracking, and Google's monopoly over so many areas makes so many systems suck - Email, App development, Search, and more.
Furthermore, none of my goals are about "making it big". I'm not trying to get a bunch of subscribers (I have far too many other hobbies already). So for me, uploading on anything that's "Not Youtube" is already enough.
But going one step further is better. Remember at the start, how I said "Odysee is a bunch of neonazi crap!"? The truth is all alternative tech starts up from people leaving mainstream platforms. Fun fact, the first federated Lemmy instances were Lemmy.ml and Lemmygrad.ml; this entire corner of the fediverse was a mashup of Marxists and North Korean sympathizers. But more people came, shared normal content, and now we have a great alternative to Reddit.
Long story short - Support alternative tech. This is how we get tools For The People. Also go like my Infero Cape video on Odysee :)