@sarvo @WhiteDissidentRadio @graf @RustyCrab @OfInterist @9 My knowledge of exactly how the LBRY protocol works isn't great, but my understanding is the blockchain shit works for address space pointing to content. However, it doesn't actually work for hosting the content itself. That needs to exist on and be hosted from a server, like any other video.

In theory, it's possible for third parties to host LBRY servers that store content and gets pointed to by the LBRY protocol, but good like finding any clear or concise guides on exactly how to do this. I tried digging around for clear documentation back when Odysee was just LBRY, and they did absolutely nothing to make it easy.

There are people who've done it... Suwako-sama has a version up here:
https://odysee.076.ne.jp/

And I believe there are others. But I agree, I think the LBRY Protocol was made as a fig leaf to pretend at muh decentralization, but it was made intentionally hard to use so the bait-and-switch to Odysee(tm) would be more successful. Easier for tech-illiterate plebs to file into yet another corporate walled garden.