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Yeah, I have been hearing about Youtube blocking ad blocks for a while now and I thought maybe Firefox + uBlock Origin is holding ads at bay for a while, but yeah, it happened today. uBlock origin has been unable to block some ads for me and I am thinking of leaving Youtube. I searched day and night (wink wink) for an alternative and I found odysee.com/ and it seems to be open source and less prone to censorship, I was wondering what you guys were using or thinking of switching too. I think Odysee is FOSS which is giant plus for me and I absolutely love it's looks.

What do you guys think?

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[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, even if you were to somehow avoid all the crazy videos (of which there are a fuck ton more than regular content), the comment sections are nearly always filled with literal nazi wannabies and people being openly bigotted in every possible way. Videos completely unrelated like Veritasium videos always somehow find the comments leaning into how Group X is to blame for everything and other vile stuff.

Even their own announcement posts have people being openly antisemitic as their top comments.

I'd argue its proof a little moderation is actually needed for a site not to become a cesspool.

[–] _spiffy@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

I heard about odysee a while ago but it felt dirty using it because of the huge amount of crypto and conspiracy content on it.

[–] SHamblingSHapes@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

Unmoderated cesspool. Even the most benign videos have bigoted chaos gremlins spewing their shit in the comments.

Odysee isn’t the main website the real use if Lbry desktop or Lbry gtk