What is LBRY?
LBRY (pronounced “library”) is a decentralized and user-controlled media platform. Creators publish videos, articles, and audio to a shared protocol where the files are stored across many participants rather than on one company's centralized servers. Most visitors today watch LBRY content via the Odysee web player (which works in any browser) and on LBRY's desktop app (currently being upgraded).
How Cockroach uses LBRY
- ✓When a creator publishes to LBRY's decentralized network (often in addition to YouTube and Rumble), Cockroach automatically publishes the LBRY-hosted version. The videos still play in any browser via the Odysee web player — no special app needed to watch them.
- ✓LBRY-hosted videos carry a small
LBRYsource badge on the thumbnail so visitors know what platform the content lives on. Cockroach's /lbry feed presents every LBRY-hosted video in our prepper catalog if you want to focus on that subset. - ✓Cockroach's URLs use a readable pattern that mirrors LBRY's creator/video hierarchy (e.g.
cockroach.media/c/creator-name/video-title) — readable today, compatible with LBRY tomorrow.
Why we're LBRY-friendly
We can't guarantee what happens to any single creator's YouTube channel next week. Publishing the LBRY version of a video (when one exists) is a small bet on the link still resolving in a year.
Watching a LBRY-hosted video on Cockroach is the same as watching a YouTube or Rumble one — click play and it works.
The whole story
“Linking to the LBRY version of a video, when one exists, is Cockroach's way of supporting decentralized media publishing. That's it.”
— Cockroach editorial