- Joined
- Jan 22, 2023
I don't think this outcome is surprising at all. LOCALS can't be a good business for Rumble (Rumble isn't a good business for Rumble, but they are making do on conservative feels invesors), since the only people I have seen on LOCALS are Potentially Sean and people whose presence in the world is too distasteful for patreon, ko-fi, and the other platforms that are more mainstream. It's all MGTurds, far rightoids, and druggies. This is not a good crowd to associate with.Catching up on the thread after a long illness, but I saw this reference that the LOCALS platform might be going away. I cannot find corroboration, but it would be funny and WEIRD if Nick killed it.
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LOCALS Bros, I don't feel so good...
LOCALS also has worse economics than Rumble. It still needs to host a bunch of videos to send to you, it hosts chats, and those videos and chats are subsidized by a very small cut of content creator earnings. Even Rumble gets a bigger slice of the pie than LOCALS. The only platform that gives creators more is Kick, and that's because Kick is one big gambling ad that operates at an intentional loss. Rumble also gets some economies of scale that LOCALS does not have, even considering that it is on Rumble servers.
Make no mistake, Nick Rekieta and his ilk - their "star" creators - are the cherry on top of the shit sundae. Anyone considering signing up to start a LOCALS community has Nick Rekieta and Barnes and both of their utterly dysfunctional chats as the examples of what they are getting. A great deterrent to participation.

