« Tucker Carlson joins Rumble » they tell me in an email that openly displays a lack of neutrality on virtually every topic they want me to watch on their platform, criticizing taxes, Joe Biden, « slacktivists » and liberals in 2 « recommended » videos.
So, hmmm, yeah, this makes me want to join your crap even less, Rumble. Do I want my little basic Linux videos side by side with conspiracy theorists that lied for years on TV? No, thank you.
Seriously, if the main title of your email, trying to make me watch / publish to your platform, is that you accepted someone who was fired from a biased, lying TV station, for lying too much and being too biased…. You need to rethink your strategy if you want to provide a spectrum of content that isn’t just « Odysee 2.0 ».
Then again, that’s probably not their goal at all.
@thelinuxEXP that reminds me, I wanted to ask your thoughts about this (admittedly still quite vague) idea I've been toying around to power privacy-conscious, decentralised content platforms like #peertube instances through micro donations made easy by a simple standard and replaceable payment brokers.
https://pierric.online/posts/microdonations/
I wanted to rewrite this to be clearer and more impactful but I haven't gotten around to doing it yet.
@PierricD Sounds like a fantastic idea! I would definitely make use of it if it ever was implemented!
@thelinuxEXP thanks! Now I just need to find a way to make it reality 😅
@firedragon My proposal has no gateway platform for the content/comments, just an interchangeable payment gateway on the side.
With a standardised way to describe how you'd like micro-donations, you could then put something on your static blog that you self-host just as easily as on a peer tube instance (assuming peer tube chooses to support the standard).
And if the payment gateway becomes bad or goes away, a new one can come in -- or multiple ones can coexist and you choose.
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@firedragon I had to look that up, I had never heard of it.
I think it's different. The way I see it they're offering a gateway platform, and although I don't know much about the polycentric protocol from their home page, it sounds like a gateway commeting platform too, like maybe an embedded Reddit? I might be missing the point entirely!
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