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 Confession: I’ve never once looked at Rumble until today and don’t see anything special. Why do people use this? 
 Censors less 
 How would we know? 
 In Europe RT is censored but you can still watch it in Rumble, for example 
 Oh. But why would anyone voluntarily subject themselves to Russian propaganda? 
 Hahaha what about American propaganda? The point is to be able to choose which propaganda to watch without censorship 
 Oh I see. You like all flavors of propaganda lol 😂 
 😅 I don't like propaganda, but for sure what I hate is that some propaganda is allowed and other propaganda is not, then we have totally partial information. Besides, sometimes to understand what is going on you need to watch some propaganda, to read between the lines. You see what they talk about and what they don't and this is also good info. 
 Ya I’m just teasing ya 
 Omnivorous for the evolution 🍒😅 
 Rumble does not censor discussions and reporting ex on science and anti-war narratives.  Many Youtubers switch over to Rumble only, when they are talking about topics that is prohibited on yt.  I discovered it by seeing censored scientists talking freely there.  So far Its a very good option to have, and it keeps some healthy check on YouTube by just existing. 
 Because they haven't heard of nostr yet. 
 Nostr doesn't decentralize large media storage or stop link rot. I hope blossom can though....  
 What if nostr users, with extra space, could offer private large media storage to other nostr users for × amout of sats, similar to how relays work? 
 Yes. I'm looking at blossom repo and thinking about how to implement sats for note storage on a relay implementation I'm working on right now.  
 Cos it’s not YouTube 
 Right-leaning rather than left-leaning.

Green YouTube 🫠 
 It just seems like every other centralized video platform… 
 cuz monark, ser 
 What 
 sarcasm 
 I've never used it either. 
 searching for sense, i used it for a short period. 
 They just took the YouTube refugees during the mass hysteria. 
 So same marketing plan as nostr 😂 
 I agree, not a huge selling point now. It will be highly valued when we need it again. 
 Because it's counter culture to YouTube. But really it's the same model on a with a different name. Same problems...  
 This exactly. It's just another centralized platform that "stands for free speech" until they inevitably dont. 
 Probably they feel like rebels 
 UAE is my guess 
 Because it's more freedom or something. 
 I thought the Rumble chap talking with Russell Brand was interesting - slightly awkward talking about how we need to be decentralised - but Rumble isn’t. That said, they seemed receptive to the idea to making it so.