Registered at Odysee yesterday and they sent me this.
What "credits" bro, we're in the Sats business here.
I thought Odysee was somehow in the Nostr eco system, but it's just another loser clone.
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It's not a clone, it's a rebrand of an older attempt that basically got shut down by the feds and replaced with this
Don't disrespect odysee or nostr could end up like it next
Actually no nostr couldn't but still
So they're already under the radar of the feds and they're not using Lightning? Even bigger L.
They use blockchain-based video storage that needs its own token to incentivize video hosting. But crypto tokens seem like they need proof of work for security so it was hard to make that work.
They're switching from their original video storage blockchain to a more general purpose file storage / data processing blockchain thing called arweave that also has its own token.
It all seems designed to distract & divert from BitTorrent imo. That's where decentralized video was already figured out, without a blockchain. Nostr can just slowly merge with BitTorrent over time and I don't see how this arweave thing would compete.
Odysee is still a potentially worthwhile place to look for an audience. They should at least just add nostr logins.
Anytime I see credits I think of this clip: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_uCMKFiXfsE&pp=0gcJCdgAo7VqN5tD