Video platforms and their features. Fun with the shitshow Eurovision for you not in the know

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May 15, 2022

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Brandnewtube💩 vs Brighteon 👍

For watchers of videos, I think Odysee has the best feed, Bitchute has great email notifications, while I personally has messed up my Rumble feed and it’s just hard to get an overview of my subscriptions. Smaller platforms like Brighteon and the Swedish platform Swebbtube are fun because there is more of a community there, unlike on Bitchute and Rumble where it’s impossible to look at everything newly uploaded. Bitchute has the best suggestions for new things to watch, but there is often better quality on Odysee in my personal experience.

You can download the others’ videos from all these platforms, but it’s easiest from Odysee. Odysee does give me problems to play its videos on my mobile unless I have WiFi though - Not sure why. Maybe Bitchute and Rumble have tricks to adjust to the lower bandwidth?

I don’t like watching videos on Facebook or Minds - It just feels awkward and the wrong place for a video - at least a longer one.

For you video creators:

I haven’t told anyone outside of Brandnewtube and Brighteon that my content is on there, so all these view are from people who found me there. This is during 5 days and there are 12 videos.

Brandnewtube: 24 “views”, all on videos that are still being “reviewed” and can’t be watched. So I’ll upload today’s video there, but nothing more until it starts to work.

Brighteon: 310 views, between 0 and 70 on each video. That is pretty nice as it’s new people might stick around, and maybe even more by time.

This can be compared to Swebbtube where I got about 300-1000 new viewers for each video that I wouldn’t have had without Swebbtube. On Linus Noremalms (Swedish) Youtube channel the panel discussions I am in gets 2000-5000 views, so that is an important source of getting new people to find me. My Facebook page (which is separate from my Facebook profile - The reason is that I can’t get comments on my profile if I do this via Streamyard - Tonight I will go live with the Facebook app though, to see if that gets more attention) gets 100-700 views on the Swedish live videos and quite few for the English lives.

Platform names

Brandnewtube has the worst name. It sounds like a cheap rip-off of Youtube (which was a great name), which is exactly what it is. Swebbtube has the same problem, but it is a natural easy to remember name as it’s created by SwebbTV and it’s focused on content for Swedes. Bitchute is OK, but makes little sense. Odysee is hard to spell - “too smart”. Brighteon is hard to spell and remember, but sounds pretty bright. Rumble is definitely the best name: Short, chaotic and doesn’t remind you of the other video platforms.

Upload features and misfeatures

Main problem is that they are all different for no good reasons.

Bitchute is better to use from Swebbtube to get video and video descriptions from than Rumble (less things imported there), but the keywords are limited to 3, and I can’t use Swedish characters or numbers (covid19, 1984), and when you have uploaded the video, you have to press submit - The upload doesn’t happen if you forget that. You can however upload a video as non-public and then make it public later, which isn’t possible on Odysee and on Rumble you have to schedule it into the future and then change that. Limited space of 5000 characters in the description.

Rumble has some fields like who did this, where and when, that take me some extra time to fill out, but I guess I don’t have to. You can submit the upload before it’s done, so that it will get published even if forget the uploading tab. Unlimited keywords that can contain spaces and everything. They don’t seem to do much though. You can have a huge description.

Odysee (or the LBRY app) doesn’t start its uploading until you have written the entire description and uploaded a thumbnail image. Then you have to wait for the transaction to confirm on their slow blockchain. But unlike Bitchute or Rumble, you don’t have to wait for the video to be processed as that has to be done by you.

Facebook is great at processing video files and live streams. So if you do a long live stream on Facebook, you can download it almost at once, but a live on Youtube (about as long as the video is long and sometime the double) or Odysee will take some time before they are ready. Doing live-streams on Facebook can be a good way to get people off the platform… Or you get your own account banned…