[kauffj]

If you are outraged about this, please consider using or contributing to LBRY.

All of our tech is open, we've been growing incredibly quickly, and we have a great roster of creators who are fed up with YouTube.

LBRY for n00bs: https://lbry.tv

Private, P2P desktop app: https://lbry.com/get

Recent progress blog post: https://open.lbry.com/@lbry:3f/progress-at-lbry:0

Contributor's guide and source code: https://lbry.tech/contribute

One-click YouTube sync: https://lbry.com/youtube

IEEE accepted whitepaper: https://open.lbry.com/@kauffj:f/lbrywhitepaper

[valtism]

By advertising this here, is your growth plan based on gaining customers who are banned, or disgruntled at the system of moderation on YouTube?

If that is the case, you may end up with a less savoury community than you hope for. Voat is an example here.

[kabacha]

What a brillaint point that always gets overlooked. People only start taking decentralization when extremes happen and extremist are first ones on board. You end up with majority extremist community when 90% of user pool is centrist - good luck tapping into that now.

[kauffj]

I'm commenting on HN, which generally has a pretty low quota of unsavory people.

There's no denying LBRY has gotten some attention from the fringes, but there is a ton of mainstream, smart, completely unobjectionable content on LBRY. Check out the progress post above.

[yellowapple]

Just created an account, and have started syncing my YouTube uploads to it (it ain't much, but whatever). I ain't entirely sold on the whole blockchain aspect, but hey, worth trying, right?

One question, though: I started off at https://lbry.com/youtube and started the sync process with a channel name, and then created an account with a different starting channel name; will both channels get correctly tied to my account? They're currently set to the same email address.

[jiggytom]

Awesome, thank you for syncing! The sync process actually creates a separate channel for you, which is later transferred to your account. You can clean up the old channel: lbry.com/faq/youtube#cleanup

The above FAQ also explains the process in more detail. Let us know if you have any other questions!

[yellowapple]

Separate channel is perfect (I do want them to be distinct). Looks like it did indeed get tied to the account I created, so we're good :)

[driverdan]

Is @LBRY-Digest run by your team or someone who's a fan? It's promoting garbage like this https://lbry.tv/@LBRY-Digest:a/WHO-Wuhan-Health-Organization...

If it's not official you should clamp down on account naming because it sure seems like it's official.

[kauffj]

That is not us.

We have a very liberal AUP for the LBRY name: https://lbry.com/faq/acceptable-use-policy

I agree that it's not helpful to have this content perceived of as coming from us and we will be looking at this.

[thekyle]

Looks interesting. I started syncing my YouTube channel.