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by cocktailpeanuts 1796 days ago
The whole article took about a minute to load because apparently it’s being loaded from some decentralized network called lbry.

I would rather be the product and get a great user experience than a shitty user experience that sells itself based on some ideal that probably will not work economically in the long run. If a decentralized network you invested a lot of your life in becomes irrelevant, it’s worse than using a centralized network that actually stays around. And most “decentralized” networks have failed to show enough traction for me to feel secure about their future.
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6r1d 1796 days ago
And, if not a secret, what ISP do you use and where?

I am often using LBRY on an ADSL modem and it's fast with all the network issue I see elsewhere.

UPD: nevermind, Odysee frontend seems to crash, but LBRY app itself works immediately with this article.

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k33l3r4pp 1796 days ago
> would rather be the product and get a great user experience than a shitty user experience that sells itself based on some ideal that probably will not work economically in the long run.

Well that depends on how many sheep we get. People don't care about principles until they are the ones being deplatformed, and abused. I sincerely hope that eventually you will figure out that the only way to have good things in a capitalistic society is to have competition. Odysee is that. Considering it has some high-profile you tubers switching over, I'd say it has potential to make Youtube irrelevant: it makes just as much money, and a decentralised system, means there isn't a single entity to bring it all down.

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