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LiveLeak was the only video site that still felt like the wild west. If I was ever linked to a LiveLink url I knew something crazy was about to happen.

I'm sure serving this kind of content had its hurdles legally. And running a video site cannot be cheap in the first place. LiveLeak will be missed.

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It did feel like a 1999 internet.

BitChute maybe the replacement?

Having never heard of bitchute, I just checked it out. It’s basically just right wing nut job stuff. I think LiveLeak at least was a little more “balanced”, in that it was about entertaining content, regardless of the political ideology.

I watched liveleak to see people get beheaded, not for conspiracies.

Aren't they both weird?

Yeah it's sadly the same with odysee and other alternative sites.

> same with odysee and other alternative sites.

I just loaded the front page of Odysee. Here is a summary of the top videos it shows me: explanation of a helicopter accident, SpaceX SN15, corgis, green house design, guinea pigs, GPU review, Democratic Socialist, and a Godzilla vs Kong comic.

That doesn't track with your opinion of the site.

Okay? And when I loaded it just now, I see "Should I get married", Steven Crowler shenanigans, some self-defense videos, etc. I haven't been there just once.

Sounds like there is all kind of videos on there. Just like YouTube.

If they're not stopping you from uploading and they don't hide videos from you (à la Youtube) then the content mainly being "right wing nut job stuff" is surely just a failure of non-right wing nut jobs to take advantage of such nowadys uncommon largesse.

I just looked at the home page. What a shame it's just covered in shit, because there's a lot of good YouTube refugees on there too.

Just looking at the front page of BitChute it seems more conspiracy crazy than just recordings of crazy things happening.

That would change if people start using it more as a LiveLeak replacement.

(The name is somewhat amusing for someone with knowledge of Australian slang.)

Bitch ute?

Whats a ute in Aussie lang?

Pickup truck!

Thanks! Still learning Aussie!

It's not quite a pickup truck. It's more an elongated car with the rear passenger area traded for a tray to carry things around in. Though having said that, the terms are often confused.

Like an El Camino but more Aussie?

Yup, exactly.

I'm Australian and not sure what you mean.

While the Youtube purges did follow some obvious political lines, most of them were nuts. The only reason you go to Bitchute is that Youtube gave you the boot so that's their niche right now. I think these companies are trying to position themselves to be in a good place if these platforms ever trigger a more mainstream exit. But the fringe content makes them highly unpalatable so good luck. This is why I won't sink a penny into these sites right now despite my issues with Youtube, Facebook ect.

This may provide Bitchute with some diversity of content. I think this counts as a fringe community just not one that's all American right wingers. It remains to be seen if these communities are compatible (one group calling the other one "sand ****ers" in the comments might be an issue since Bitchute doesn't censor anything).

or https://leakedreality.com/

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