Their player app could only show one video at a time, no tabs. The only way to play more than one video is to queue up a bunch while the video you're watching is in a miniplayer. No pausing and switching back/forth. So Odysee website was 1000% better.
The cache had no maximum size so you couldn't just say "ok here's 50 GB" and have it keep the most popular/new content.
I guess they were distracted by the SEC lawsuit, but these simple things kept me from donating bandwidth even though I tried. It was just too annoying.
LBRY was a bit of a baffling concept and it was kind of dead on arrival, they should simply run Odysee as the main site and keep it all going as a proper video/streaming alternative. Rumbles' doing well considering as a centralised option and I've been impressed by their stances so maybe I'll be a bit more active on there but things seem a bit up in air now when it comes to what direction they're going to go.
It actually seems like Rumble is looking to be the more reliable alternative just because it doesn't involve itself in crypto which is sad and they seem to know what they're doing legally.. Plus, it's becoming something of a gateway for red pilling with the normies, you're even seeing people make a genuine switch from youtube. All we can hope is that neither of these two sites will pull any shenanigans after they start building up a reliable base on their free speech angle.
Their player app could only show one video at a time, no tabs. The only way to play more than one video is to queue up a bunch while the video you're watching is in a miniplayer. No pausing and switching back/forth. So Odysee website was 1000% better.
The cache had no maximum size so you couldn't just say "ok here's 50 GB" and have it keep the most popular/new content.
I guess they were distracted by the SEC lawsuit, but these simple things kept me from donating bandwidth even though I tried. It was just too annoying.
LBRY was a bit of a baffling concept and it was kind of dead on arrival, they should simply run Odysee as the main site and keep it all going as a proper video/streaming alternative. Rumbles' doing well considering as a centralised option and I've been impressed by their stances so maybe I'll be a bit more active on there but things seem a bit up in air now when it comes to what direction they're going to go.
It actually seems like Rumble is looking to be the more reliable alternative just because it doesn't involve itself in crypto which is sad and they seem to know what they're doing legally.. Plus, it's becoming something of a gateway for red pilling with the normies, you're even seeing people make a genuine switch from youtube. All we can hope is that neither of these two sites will pull any shenanigans after they start building up a reliable base on their free speech angle.