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[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

LBRY is cool but I'm honestly sketched out by the creators that currently exist there. It's mostly weird libertarians and crypto bros plus random porn bots. Also between the first and most recent times I played with it they added a CDN that hosts all of the files and something like 99% of the data I downloaded while farting around on there came from that single official CDN, so very decentralized.

Peertube has actual large creators who aren't weird conservative podcasters, and tons of different servers already which serve content, and great Mastadon integration which puts it in a much better spot for growth moving forwards than LBRY. You can literally watch peertube videos from Mastadon (Which has millions of active users including some celebrities and government officials) and comment on them from Mastadon, so there's kinda already a userbase measured in millions depending on how you classify cross-fediverse users

[–] fin@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 hours ago

mostly weird libertarians and crypto bros plus random porn bots

Maybe yeah. In fact, the only video I've ever watched on LBRY is from a YouTuber named Mental Outlaw