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I don't even really understand what's going on, but I'm entertained nonetheless (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Me who has never subscribed to a single YT channel or "liked" any YT video:

YouTube is overrated and too ubiquitous

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Too ubiquitous, probably. Overrated, I'm not sure. There's really a lot a lot of very valuable content.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Youtube might as well be the whole internet at this point, there's absolutely nothing you can't find in there. Memes, recipes, news, sports, vlogs, tutorials, documentaries, music, you name it, it's there. Fully degoogling my life is something I aspire to do one day but even then I'm not sure I can ever leave Youtube.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

A whole lot of the disconnect has to do with age. Those of us who grew up with AOL 3.0 and earlier prefer the text based internet, but those who grew up with video are quite comfortable with it. I played MUDs and find video either too slow paced or distracting with jump cuts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You may love https://youtubetranscript.com/

Been using that lot after finding out about it on lemmy to just skim through the text of a video or Ctrl F.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I concur, because I don't have the patience to watch people blab on about their bullshit and panhandle for Likes and all that garbage. I would much rather read some detailed but concise information about the topic I'm investing my time in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No there is a nearly infinite amount of Internet out there that is Not Youtube, you just haven't explored it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an interesting complaint. Is ubiquity necessarily bad?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the ubiquitous thing is enshittified, then yes.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

So the answer is no then. Just the shitty stuff is shitty. There's plenty of good stuff on YouTube.