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  • Wow, that’s crazy. I’m Australian (Australian Dad & Kiwi Mum) but I actually have Irish in my heritage. I am also the only one in the family to have red hair which was apparently a massive coincidence only possible because of DNA that by chance was on both my Mum’s side and my Dad’s side (I don’t know the fine details). Until I was 13-14, my eyes used to change colour between Green and Blue depending on the time of year. Now I’m approaching 23 and my eyes have consistently been green since around 14.









  • 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.











  • They also earn money from the optional premium subscriptions, the 5% cut from channel donations, and 100% of the donations sent directly to them. The way the direct donations work is by going to a video, and just below it, clicking the “$ Support” button and making the donation either via cash or LBC. That’s an option for all channels on the platform.

    Otherwise, I don’t know the ins-and-outs of how the decentralised blockchain system works, but they do not have to host all of the sites content themselves, as it is also voluntarily hosted by other users. I’m not sure how this works at the moment; it previously worked by being a user of the LBRY Desktop app, but after the LBRY company shut down, and the LBRY app went away, I’m not sure how other people host the pieces of that content anymore. They are moving away from the LBRY blockchain protocol, over to the Arweave protocol, so I imagine they will bring out an Arweave app that may replace the LBRY app which that was used previously.


  • It does. You can get it on the Google Play Store or F-Droid. F-Droid version is very outdated though. You can always officially get the latest version directly from apk.odysee.tv.

    I only found out about that link to the latest version a few days ago, and I was previously using the F-Droid version to avoid using Google services. I don’t know how much better the latest version is, but my experience with the very outdated F-Droid version was that the app was very slow and laggy. I heard that performance tends to be quite good or terrible depending on your phone; my phone is just a cheap android phone from a few years ago, so it makes sense it didn’t run well for me. I haven’t tested the latest version yet.