https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
Adjective
based (comparative more based, superlative most based)
(slang, of a person) Not caring what others think about one's personality, style, or behavior; focused on maintaining individuality.
(Internet slang) Admirable; praiseworthy.
(Internet slang, originally 4chan) Admirable for rejecting liberalism or left-wing values.
Nothing based about YT
Use odysee, it’s crypto friendly and does not steal 30% of content creator’s earnings
https://odysee.com/@AlphaNerd:8/monerica-the-‘yellow-pages’-of-the:d
Or use LBRY, because it’s the decentralized backend of Odysee. Doesn’t rely on a website.
For users who watch videos, odysee doesn’t look good: infested with GoogleTagManager and/or GA, tracking people with sentry_key, etc. Using piped or maybe random instances of Invidious feels a better idea. For authors, though, escaping from Google is very important (anyone who can’t see this intuitively without even thinking, is not an artist).
Anyway… in one year or so, as soon as Monero->Fiat via CEX is regulated more tightly (if not banned), many of those companies now accepting xmr will probably stop accepting it. Then, perhaps we’re having some interesting experiments.
Buying gift cards with xmr may be a necessary evil, self-contradicting, not really circular, only introducing another kind of middle-man. Services like proxy stores do make sense, though—irl privacy is unfortunately not free-of-charge by default, so one may have to pay to “buy” it.
@Saki @tusker I happen to know the CEO of LBRY/Odyssee. He was very upfront about Odyssee being an ad-generation/metadata-sales company, when it was created in the face of LBRY slowly losing money.
Incredibly perverse, given Odyssee’s marketing. Kinda like those slimy VPN companies that do protect you from your local Internet carrier… but not from their own advertising & tracking.
Ad/tracker blocker solves this. How people are still not using them I do not understand.
