The problem of low viewership

ad program to connect advertisers to content creators.

I agree with marketing in real life and not just online. Knowing who your audience is and where they may be is helpful.

"Improve the search function. It really needs it."

This is so badly needed it's not even funny. I get far more accurate and useful results searching for content on Odysee by using startpage or duckduckgo than I do inside of Odysee.

Agree the financial returns are better on YouTube due to its size and time it has been in existence. That makes a difference.

Sadly, in the Netherlands we still cannot do anything with membership.

search function improvement!

• Second this - Let me have some sort of account, where I could transfer a set amount of $/month and use that for subs and tips. Also my credit company doesn't need to know, what kind of content i'm subbed to.
• make it easier to be subscribed to premium - the wording is weird and also it is impossible (or i think) to buy credits to post videos and other content - i might have time to post but not to watch 10 videos a week - i'm okay with paying for credits
• make it work to use an email again for an account if you have deleted an old one or to use a cc on multiple accounts for credits and varied accounts

Feature suggestions:

• CC/Subtitles (including different languages and community subtitles)
• Annotations (including community annotations)
• I don't know what you prefer, but I prefer 5-star rating over Like/Dislike (or Fire/Slime in this case)
• Customizable channel page (helps define creator's personality, thus increasing viewer engagement)
• Audio tracks for different languages (some viewers prefer dub over sub, it's understandable)

@Odysee

Popular content creators should be more responsible!

Agree. Youtube or whatever you use.. streamers who want to bring people over to alternative platforms should make intro or short videos of what they will be talking about and directly invite people to alt-media for the full video. This is the best way to push people to make the jump.

I agree - why would you want to be a part of something that clearly does not want you to be a serious part of it?

Exclusives sell new platforms, multiplats reinforce the monopoly of the top platform.

It's kind of like politics in a two party system, everyone says they hate both mainstream political parties but no one votes for the newer smaller parties because "it's a wasted vote"

I do this especially on longer videos to limit weird region blocking and ID claims, some are outright fraudulent copy-troll claims.

One creator I can think of, HugoTalks, actually does the opposite. Uploads the trailer to Odysee, links to Youtube. Weird for a born again christian to feed the beast system that way.

I do something similar to that for my "new tech exclusives" I will put a short advetisement on Youtube linking it to the full video on here.

TLDR: Odysee failed because its basically pre-monetization YT and there is no longer a demand for that, and those who say there is are too blackpilled to actually upload anything now..
Also yes the YTseync exclusive must happen, majority of the place is just synced garbage from the usual suspects I really would like a way to filter them out.

I have patreon for a reason.

Sheeple are whats wrong with this world.

Normies don't care about free speech because they've got nothing interesting or controversial to say. Most people are natural born slaves who believe whatever their television tells them. Look what happened during covid for example. I'm actually glad millions of vaxtards have died from strokes and myocarditis since 2020, they deserve it.

I totally agree, for crypto, we don't care. Nothing like real dollars in pay for people who have a channel.

There's some truth to this, but it's tempered by some law like diminishing returns.
You need a platform to get large enough to be sustainable, but further growth becomes corrupted.
We need choice, but a million platforms would lead to more confusion than help.
Just as we humans need water, but in a room full we drown.

Handsome Truth was banned from Odysee, so there is definitely some censorship here.

Agreed with you until you mentioned that whiny b!tch stack

Such interesting and diverse views people have on here!

negative, bad people in charge lead to compromise

here we see muta shit all over yt, 400k views, every comment says f yt. meanwhile gets 300 views here. it doesnt make any sense.

https://odysee.com/@SomeOrdinaryGamers:a/youtube's-adblock-war-just-got-way:0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JYFMMNYz60

True for YT. I have 4 and I get no response.

Pretty sure the intelligence agencies make a lot of the odysee views, just to find out what's really going on, lol. Odysee is not just a consumer platform, but a grassroots think tank.

You have to disable your vpn, if you have always different ip address Odysee will keep loging you through mail.

I have VPN. I don't have this problem.

that's typically how they treat us.

The nasty piece of work they are, first them twisted our arm to use Google+
and froze people out of their accounts who didn't comply, then they dropped that for people
They then in 2021 or there about they removed deleted the discussion tab and years of links and comments. They also allowing anyone to view any comments made
And when they run adverts which they claim blocking is against TOU, the advert's volume is blasting loud much louder than the video watched .

All the platforms who censored top notch scientists and medical doctors who were warning about the Covid vaccines trap should remain emptier than the Moon surface, that includes Whatsapp.

Ahh you don't have advanced features too? I have had that for a while now and my YT channel is over 15 years old.
I just upload less to YT now, not worth the struggle.

Youtube now requires a channel to be VERIFIED in order to pin comments. Also, links in the Video Descriptions are no longer live/"hot" (except YT links) if not verified. Slowly squeezing people for their IDs.

It may or may not be a trap, but we should treat it as if it might be.
Even if it is not intended as one, it may become one.
The price for freedom is eternal vigilance apparently, we get to keep as much freedom as we can watch over.

This is exactly why I love Odysee and hope they don't use any of the tactics mainstream platforms have for the past 13+ years, its what lead to the death of the internet, all corpo, all for profit/for fame low quality disposable garbage.

I signed up to rumble pre convid they never mentioned needed a selfie phone to comment and upload and they deleted the account I signed up to watch, they never even had a delete account
had to contact them to do that. I later discovered who owns them. I don't share or watch there
I get the title & do a search to locate the video elsewhere.

might have been I, but only to discard that model. fyi

Vanguard Group bought a 5% stake in Rumble on December 29, 2023 and it's disclosed in their SEC filing in February of this year that's posted on their investor site. I fully expect Rumble to be implementing the same restrictions as YT by the end of the year.

this is exactly why i didnt even go to youtube but directly started to publish on odysee as it seemed the only platform to be at least a little more resilient to this kind of death trap of censorship and manipulation.

Rumble did what worked to get them to the top of the heap. In just a few years, they raced past Odysee. Odysee chose to not go that route, for whatever reason, and they are lagging behind. IMO, the smart option is to continue backing Odysee, but to also back Rumble. Buy Rumble stock. Become part of the solution. Treat it like that GameStop thing -- buy the stock and hold. If enough of us do that, we become a force for good. There's no Odysee stock you can buy, so anything you do for Odysee only makes Odysee stronger while you get nothing substantive. Yeah, blackrock bought a 5% stake in Rumble, and that should be something to note. If they're buying, you should be buying. Build up your wealth. Even if Rumble is awful, in your view, using them to make positive gains in your life that you can then use to combat them... that's smart. That's exactly what Liberty Safe Company did. That's what the Leftists always do. Almost every "conservative" company is actually owned by devout leftists who work behind the scenes and funnel the money they make off conservatives into causes that conservatives hate.