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Eh... what the hell is that link? The recommended videos on that place are WILD.
I had heard some rumblings about Rossmann being on some weird alt-right focused service, but I had honestly forgotten and I wasn't expecting to get a faceful of it by accident. Yikes.
Look at this fucking shit.
Fucking hell. Why did they steal the thumbnail format from those kids channels.
odysee is a weird place, lots of "creators" that were forced off youtube and other places for far out views or outright dangerous lies ended up there as they have almost no rules.
There are a lot of non-far-right weirdos that use it, but it is hard to scroll through without seeing some fringe crazy shit.
https://i.imgur.com/nOOT8NK.png
what the fuck is this?! WHat IS THIS?!
What the actual fuck
Jesus Christ, you weren't kidding. One of the recommended videos for me was "Why the crusades were completely justified!" Yeah, fuck that crazy shit.
Every other recommend video had the word "justified" in it. It's recommending similar videos on the titles alone. I'm not defending it, just pointing out how weird that is.
"Why posting weird videos is justified"
What's really wild is that people arguing for things like Right-to-Repair would be anywhere near right-wing to begin with.
Like, Louis, you don't see how the entire conservative ideology undermines ideas like right-to-repair? How can you be like "Yeah, I trust these guys who all would shut down the things I'm arguing for," and just be oblivious to it?
Here's the conservative angle, at least in my view: "We've always had the right to repair our possessions before, and we will conserve that right for future generations."
Then again, what I consider conservative has never actually matched up with the political party, which is a big part of why I am no longer right wing.
Louis's videos are posted to multiple platforms out of principle, not politics... that means they also get posted on sites with creators that have been kicked out of YouTube, like the one linked here
My principle is I don't hang out in fucking Nazi spaces.
Like, I wouldn't go to a bar that advertised itself as a Nazi bar, and I wouldn't upload my content to a site like this, that has enough Nazis on it that they're in the recommended videos for a fucking Louis Rossman video.
If Louis is happy hanging out at Nazi bars, that's on him and you can hardly hang that on "principles."
And yet the top suggested videos were about how the Crusades were justified and how cop shootings are justified.
I would think if the largest community was programmers, those kind of videos would be suggested, not this shit.
Top suggested videos sadly speaks otherwise about the people on this site.
Dude sounds a lot like a libertarian business owner tbh. I wouldn't be surprised if they align very well with the right otherwise.
Platforms that offer greater freedom also tend to host visibly more extreme content. My guess is the slightly more advertiser friendly extremism pushed by algorithms on mainstream platforms is far more impactful on society.
Outside of the relatively small number of people engaged with issues like software freedom, privacy, right to repair there is no reason to choose a platform with less views unless your content is banned from the alternatives.
I expect Rossmann's politics are shaped by his experiences as a small business owner. Many such people desire greater economic and individual freedom and are likely economic liberals but that doesn't necessarily influence their views on other matters. He is an outspoken advocate for consumer freedoms including right to repair which I respect. I don't know the guy personally but I would be surprised and disappointed if he endorses far right crazy shit. I am using Lemmy and respect the people who wrote the software but nothing about my politics should be inferred from theirs.
he has some very dubious takes - he's very correct on how shitty it is to be a consumer but he's completely blind to any systemic analysis of it, willfully I would imagine.