What's the purpose of this community? It's called Odysee - Share Videos Freely.

Is it saying that the purpose of this Lemmy community is to share Odysee videos? Or is the community meant for general Odysee discussion, where "Share Videos Freely" is simply referring to the free speech that Odysee offers?

The creator of this community didn't make this entirely clear.

Check out my new playthrough for the new remaster for the classic 1997 game Croc: Legend of the Gobbos. Parts 2-5 will release tonight. The rest of the 15 part playthrough will be released over the next 2 days.

For those who missed it: https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/newmonetizationmodel:6 https://odysee.com/@Odysee:8/weredroppingstripe:e

Odysee is now dropping stripe and going full crypto. Now, I tried looking up information on how they are going to manage things, but this was really hard.

Before, I paid for a subscription, and that's fine and all. I can keep on paying a subscription, but where should I pay money to? This crypto is so hard to use, they only let you install a browser extension to use it. Do I really have to use Chrome/Firefox just to use a cripto? What about a CLI?

This is a thread for all the confused people, like me, who want to continue using Odysee but just can't wrap their head around this new payment model :D

Edit 1:

This is worse than I thought. Even Meta (Facebook) seems to be a supporter of the project https://www.arweave.org/use/ . Why? What is their incentive?

Edit 2:

Even Microsoft is working on this https://github.com/ArweaveTeam/arweave-standards/blob/master/ans/ANS-103.md . Nice! Surely they don't lack investments.

Edit 3: This is a very good analysis of the people involved in the project https://medium.com/@c1s0r/scam-or-legit-arweave-95081ea7705b , maybe a bit old. Answers to the questions can be found here https://medium.com/@c1s0r/scam-or-legit-arweaves-answers-a40420393e07 . The overall verdict is "Questionable" here, with many missing points still unanswered. At the very least, many real people are involved and have spent money and invested publicity in this project.

Edit 4: The stupidest question I can't find an answer for is: If I am a node and I receive tokens for maintaining the network, and users pay me those tokens to keep the network alive. Can't I just spend those tokens on myself? How do you prevent this infinite, circular investment?

Edit 5: So they seem to also have investors in China as well.

Edit 6:

The mining docs also make sense, detailing the required hardware:

https://docs.arweave.org/developers/mining/mining-quickstart https://docs.arweave.org/developers/mining/examples https://docs.arweave.org/developers/mining/hardware

This project's premise looks in every way like a Ponzi scheme, yet they seem to be actually trying to solve the problem of persistent storage on the blockchain. But why are they ignoring basic market laws? It just doesnt' make sense, if electrical current costs money, you can't simply pay tokens upfront.

Edit 7: Fuck it, I'm reading the damn paper from start to end https://www.arweave.org/yellow-paper.pdf

Edit 8: Whilst reading I found this post titled "How to Buy $AO" which was released just yesterday https://medium.com/@perma_dao/how-to-buy-ao-3e90c06fa4da

Edit 9: As another user on another platform puts it: What would be the difference with having a DAO get funds to pay for storage on Filecoin?

Edit 10 (final edit):

Here you have it: 3.2.6 Data Permanence, Not Network Permanence All technologies come in cycles[10]. While the Arweave’s mechanism design is generally engineered to promote adaptivity to new circumstances, the core Arweave team does not expect that the network as it is currently formulated will continue to produce blocks in true perpetuity. This does not, however, mean that we expect that the information stored inside the weave will be lost after the final block is mined. It is our expectation that when eventually a permanent information storage system more suited to the challenges of the time emerges, the Arweave’s data will be ‘subsumed’ into this network. After the mining of the final block, the financial incentive mechanisms for data preservation will subside and give way to social incentives for data preservation. This effect will likely be compounded by the exceptionally low cost of storing the data from the network, due to its decreasing relative cost over time.

To be honest, I like this conclusion. This direct approach could actually work, ironically, as it worked many times in history. Fake it till you make it, you could say. I personally bought an Odysee sub in the past because I liked LBRY's ideals and technological challenges, and if they think this is the best bet possible as of today, I cannot disagree. We will see how this pans out in the future! You could say some people were already doing this for free, with trackers and stuff, and now they have a monetary incentive. What a time to be alive!

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Dear Odysee Community, We have often reflected on ways to further support the discovery of smaller Odysee creators within our community.

We deeply respect the dedication of these creators, tirelessly producing engaging content while simultaneously trying to build an audience. Despite limited resources or the backing of powerful algorithms, they continue to pursue their craft with passion and determination.

That's why we're excited to tell you about our new 'Discover' category, a space on the homepage designed to shine a light on smaller channels exclusively. This category will showcase fresh channels, with selections refreshed every 48 hours to ensure constant variety. You can also click ‘Discover’ from the side menu for an even larger selection of content from newer small creators.

We believe this initiative will open doors for smaller Odysee creators to connect with new fans, while offering the community an ever-evolving stream of fresh, engaging content to explore.

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IN short I was trying to sign up my DeafBlind gaming channel on Youtube and they rejected it out of the blue. No emails, no notifications no nothing.

Furthermore you have to MANUALLY figure out this information of requiring 400 subs by hoping be able to FIND the absurdly located and not notated "learn more" information.

At the VERY least they couldn't notated a hyperlink saying "Minimum Requirements" or something to that effect and having easily "see able".