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Odysee vs Open Sea - the good and evil in battle on Web 3.0

Do you know where NFTs fail the hardest? They undermine any advantage of tying files to blokchain by hosting them on centralized services.
Do you know what the most widly used decentralized sevice in the history of the internet is? Torrents.

I've been playing around on Odysee - the torrent-based alternative to YouTube for a couple of days now and honestly I did not expect it to be as good as it is. Going for decentralization absolutely obliterates all of the problems youtube seems to have with very few new problems added and crucialy - thanks to the way they set up the avoided attractig the kind of people who get banned everywhere else.

I don't want to get too deep into the details of how it works but yes there is also blokchain and crypto involved, it's how people are supposed to make money out of the platform once it gains some more traction, and the platform itself is really just a front end for an amazing protocol known as LBRY, but more on that later.

Why I think this is amazing:
1. as stated before - Eliminates the problems youtube has, proving decentralized services can actually do that
2. as aluded to before - plays off of the strengths of the thing everyone hypes up so much instead of nulifying them
3. it's literally nothing new - most all of the concepts solutions in there have been around for ages and we don't have to figure stuff out as we go
4. and this is a stretch - it can actually scale to big significance

How so?
1. If there are no central entities they can't decide what is and isn't popular it's up to the natural facors and those are harder to abuse.
Also as an added bonus since Odysee is just a front for LBRY it should be possible to preserve the decentralized data and just swap the frontend if need be.
2. If crypto has value only because anyone can start validating it then rlying on something such as Open Sea to handle items tied to the value means it can be easily lost. Bankruptcy? All gone. Malice? Guess your ape is now a stock image of a dog with watermark still on it and so is every other ape. How about a cheeky prank where the one ape you thought looked the least bad and bough got swaped around with something else? Torrents rely on seeding from however many devices chose to do so and performing an action on any one of them bears no results much like with crypto nodes.
3. right there in the point; The only reason why NFTs got their foot in he door in the first place is becouse people got confused by the novty that's only starting to wear off. 4. This actually goes two ways.
It can scale itself because upkeep costs are shared between many, many users, but it can also scale in scopel, though conceptually rather than practicaly since I sincerely doubt they'll ever add TOR nodes to crypto and torrents.

So now, I'm sure you're asking: Just why the hell would I care and why do you?
Frankly while I'm fine with large sites taking most of the trafic and even the strict rules they might impose I'm sick of the big companies controlling most to all of the data of the web and the emerging new powers don't look much better. In fact they look worse.
I refuse to believe people at Open sea don't realize the irony of centralized crypto hub and the problems it introduces on top of the more inherent ones like power consumption of miniting a single one. It'd be my guess they just don't care so long as it makes them money. Hell if they know I see no reason why none of them would thing of potentialy eventually exploiting them, even if I don't think they'd go through with it.
Odysee and the whole LBRY project shows us exactly how a well thought out and well intentioned take on Web 3.0 concepts should look like. I happen to believe it's a good solution to many of problems of the modern internet and for the first time I have something giving me hope that the cause is not lost to idiotic solutions and selfish intent.


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Genesis

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hai this is very desperate . my account got deleted *cries* im desmond.... idek why my account got sniped


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ight, I can believe that

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O Alentejano

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this is all too complicated for my peabrain, but i support anyone undermining centralized power


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Didn't feel like doing fancy formatting this time around but it might change as I iterate and make changes on the post.


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