[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.