Odysee (the video platform) no longer has Ads on it.
Odysee (the video platform) no longer has Ads on it.
I think this is cool but I can't overstate how much I hate Odysee.
Just scroll through a few of the comments on that blog post and you'll see what I mean. There's so much hate throughout the platform to the point where the 5th to top comment is about how COVID is a hoax.
I do not recommend anyone else read through anything on this platform... It's just another example of "free speech" platforms being platforms for hate speech and nothing else.
It's hard not to feel like this move is a way to look good when nobody wants to advertise on a hate speech platform anyway.
Have they tried sueing their advertisers instead? I hear that works great for other hate speech platforms.
Believing COVID is a hoax is hate? I went and read that comment and the guy was just upset at what appeared to him to be YouTube censoring his comments. That's not hate.
COVID being a hoax is a conspiracy theory rooted in hate. It's another gateway one like how "the pyramids were made by aliens" is based entirely in racism.
Another good example is how the anti-vaccine conspiracy is purely based on hating anyone with a disability.
They aren't explicitly about hate but the only reason they exist is because of hate.
That makes no sense. The only hate one who believes COVID is a hoax might have is for the governments and/or pharmaceutical industry, but it is not an inherent aspect of the belief; I honestly have no idea where you got that idea from.
The point I'm trying to get across, is that you can't simply say the platforms users are hateful, purely using only the comment section below this blog post as an example. Looking at the top 20 surface-level comments (not including replies), absolutely none of them are being hateful, and the majority are praising Odysee for their move; you've just specifically singled out the one single comment fifth from the top, that happened to mention COVID being a hoax, and labelled it as hate, and the whole platform as hateful, just because of your pre-concieved notion that the COVID hoax theory originally stemmed from hate.
I am defending Odysee's community, because I'm an active Odysee user myself, and I know from experience what the community is like; I know that the community (overall) isn't hateful. It's only when videos get into controversial topics that things can become heated between users, but even then, it is usually just unharmful opinions and debates, and the exact same happens on YouTube every day. Comments inciting hatred or violence, which isn't common, are removed by moderators when they are reported. I can't stand being around toxic online communities, and Odysee overall isn't one of them, otherwise I would have left the platform years ago. Like anywhere, including Lemmy, you choose which subcommunities to hang around in. And like YouTube, you can choose not to read the comments on a video and instead take it at face-value (I think most people do that anyway on YT). You seem to think that Odysee users are toxic, when I personally get attacked on YouTube by both trolls and angry people at least double the amount I do on Odysee, and my opinions aren't generally considered controversial most of the time either.