As a free user you can read posts, but cannot comment, and cannot post comments to live streams. Each channel decides how much or how little to charge, and Locals doesn't keep but a small percentage of total channel revenue. It is a pretty nifty set up, and I think subscription model is the future, free social media funded by advertising is cancer.
Yeah, the ad-driven internet is already dying off. Half the reason for the Adpocolypse on Youtube was because they literally didn't have enough ads to deliver to people in the first place.
Not really. The "Adpocalypse" was just an excuse to deplatform people and censor POVs that the Left/Google/Regime doesn't like
Google/YouTube has always had the power to give advertisers 100% control over where their ads could be displayed. (And, in fact, advertisers who are making significant spends on YT already had this power).
Sort of like Rumble, the UI and user experience is pretty unrefined and lacking lots of features.
There were also rumours last week that the admins started outright deleting posts that broke ToS or were fedpost-y, going above the jannies and content creators heads.
Locals allows "anything but porn" but does allow balldo reviews. They've hosted election-questioning and covid content. Their video backend is through Rumble in fact.
How is locals? I think I've seen mentions of that site but I don't know much about it.
As a free user you can read posts, but cannot comment, and cannot post comments to live streams. Each channel decides how much or how little to charge, and Locals doesn't keep but a small percentage of total channel revenue. It is a pretty nifty set up, and I think subscription model is the future, free social media funded by advertising is cancer.
Yeah, the ad-driven internet is already dying off. Half the reason for the Adpocolypse on Youtube was because they literally didn't have enough ads to deliver to people in the first place.
Not really. The "Adpocalypse" was just an excuse to deplatform people and censor POVs that the Left/Google/Regime doesn't like
Google/YouTube has always had the power to give advertisers 100% control over where their ads could be displayed. (And, in fact, advertisers who are making significant spends on YT already had this power).
Lots of tech problems lately.
Sort of like Rumble, the UI and user experience is pretty unrefined and lacking lots of features.
There were also rumours last week that the admins started outright deleting posts that broke ToS or were fedpost-y, going above the jannies and content creators heads.
Locals allows "anything but porn" but does allow balldo reviews. They've hosted election-questioning and covid content. Their video backend is through Rumble in fact.
What?
Laughs in Rekieta chat
Locals belongs to Rumble (they got acquired back in 2021)