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Decentralised YouTube alternative Odysee no longer serving ads (odysee.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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Odysee, a decentralised YouTube alternative focused on free speech, is officially ending the serving of ads on the platform, starting today. The post:

"Dear friends of Odysee, Starting today, we're removing all ads. We don't need ads to make money as a platform and we are confident in the development of our own new monetisation programs that will help creators earn a living and at the same time keep Odysee alive. Ultimately, sacrificing the overall user experience to make a few bucks isn't worth it to us and nor is it even sustainable for a platform that wishes to make something truly open and creatively free.

As we take this decision, one thing is certain to us, media platforms (even ones that market themselves as 'free-speech') typically devolve into advertising companies and end up becoming beholden to their paymasters. It's been that way for centuries and is never going to change.

As we see YouTube become more aggressive with their ad deployment and 'Free Speech' platforms try to build their own ad businesses it's apparent to us that we're building a model for Odysee that will keep it sustainable not only financially, but in its ability to provide an incorruptible user experience.

Our approach may be considered niche or unconventional, that's fine by us. Odysee will be used by the world on terms that are agreeable to its users, and we know our users don't like ads.

Best, Founder & Creator, Chief Executive Officer. Julian Chandra"

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Regardless of why he's saying that ads fuck up media platforms, the reasoning itself is sensible. And, while nobody in this thread is saying "ads good", plenty people across Lemmy see advertisement as some sort of necessary evil when it comes to supporting online platforms, and they're willing to compromise, even if that would be a bloody mistake.

If he was making ad money he’d be saying exactly the opposite of all this.

Then he would be saying something idiotic. (It wouldn't be noteworthy.)

Fascists don’t have any morals but power for power’s sake. That’s what fascism IS.

It's actually worse than simple lack of morals: they have fucked up moral premises, that are immoral for anyone with a shred of dignity.

And even a broken clock is right twice a day. In this case, since Chandra got no financial support from ads, he stumbled upon a decent reasoning, regardless of doing so for moral or immoral reasons.