Anyone else dismayed by the limited success and adoption of Odysee (YT alternative) when it comes to Reddit alternatives?

https://lemmy.world/post/850923

Anyone else dismayed by the limited success and adoption of Odysee (YT alternative) when it comes to Reddit alternatives? - Lemmy.world

So YouTube has a lot of problems, there’s no denying that. Frivolous and selective (not to mention automated) copyright enforcement, bureaucratic termination appeal system, COPPA idiocy, the whole clusterfuck that is monetization, etc? In contrast, Odysee is this open-source video platform that fixes many of these problems. It took of, like, I dunno, a year ago? Thing is, it’s still very inactive and dead. A lot of YouTubers have pined for a massive exodus from YouTube, which might sound familiar for many of us Lemmings here. Yet, the majority of them can’t seem to let it go, since YouTube/Google pretty much exercises a monopoly on the online video sharing industry. What worries me is that Reddit alternatives, such as Lemmy, Mastodon, or kbin, could see a similar fate to YouTube alternatives like Odysee or BitChute. I’d love to see people quit Reddit en masse and hopefully find a “safe harbor” some place like here, but I’m hearing about realistic concerns regarding even the viability of this site’s databases, so I feel like the actual outcome will be more of a small dent than a massive crater. Which is exactly what Huffman wants and he knows it. Ugh, I hate this awful corporate creativity-stifling timeline.

Might be a hot take but... I don't think Odysee is a failure by any means? They did establish themselves somewhat. A very good number of FOSS creators already synced their content over or even made Odysee their primary platform, Mental Outlaw was probably the most famous one. They also got their weird LBRY nonsense sorted out so there was at least some type of monetization.

The thing was... Odysee seems to be catering very much towards the right-end of the political spectrum, so that might end up deterring a lot of ppl. Wouldn't assume some people who just want to watch cat memes to like getting a bunch of conspiracy theory and stuff thrown at their face... PSA The Linux Experiment (TLE) is very much aware of Odysee and explicitly avoided the platform because of that reason

There's also Peertube as an alternative, but if Odysee suffers from bad marketing/bad monetization then... lol. Not to name names here but there is a prominent content creator (who is also on Nebula and on Mastodon) who mentioned that they don't want to deal with Peertube with all the extra hassles for potentially just some freeloaders to watch their content for free.

just some freeloaders to watch their content for free.

Shitting on potential fans just cause you dont get paid for their views isnt very genki