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Yeah YouTube is one of the more annoying ones imo
Yeah. Lack of any viable alternatives really sucks with YouTube in particular. Hosting video is too damn expensive.
To me the most annoying part is everyone is so entrenched in youtube they either need to accept its a service they should pay for or start looking at migrating. There cant be any viable alternative if there isn't an audience.
Lemmy didn't have an audience for about 4 years until it did.
Add most of the commercial internet to the list
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we have alternatives to both. people just need to switch.
but youtube is really hard to replace.
Don't worry, there's TikTok. /s
SEO might actually enshittificate YT or make it dependant on AI. Both are hard to deal with from a privacy or open source POV.
Nebula.tv has some promise. It's not free but it's very cheap and creator-owned. Plus there's no ads. But it can never be a true replacement for Youtube because it doesn't allow just anyone to upload there.
What about Peertube as an alternative?
Like, I use neither. Just curious.
Hard to monetize + server costs
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My alternative to youtube is reading books from the local library and playing the guitar.
The decline of reddit and youtube especially has done wonders to my quality of life.
Newpipe is great, for me. I don't have a steady stream of recommendations or shorts, just content I actually subscribe to and whatever is trending if I go there, or manually search for.
The infection of ads into every corner of Social media legitimately was making me a worse person, with a shorter attention span and no mental clarity.
Your best bed with youtube is odysee. It is not perfect but much better then youtube.
A direct, very intentional, assault on major social media by fascists.
Wouldn't exactly say fashisim is to blame but rather simply corpos want maximize profit on a hinherently unprofitable business models. Like I'm personally not seeing much ideology getting pushed anywhere. Granted I hardly spend time on Twitter but all I've been seein on x is furry tits and on the other platforms just ads getting pushed. From what I can tell you can say what ever and no one will hear you over the ads.
There is not much „maximizing profit“ in allowing fascists back on twitter. Elon is throwing money away for his political goals.
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I have Twitter completely blocked, just from the news alone it's clear Elon is pushing a political agenda at the expense of the business, which means it's the intended point, because he's not dumb. It doesn't matter what you specifically would see in your timeline these days, assuming you would follow better-than-garbage people. The platform is directly being advertised to the world as a place for fascist ideology to go unchecked. The people that know that, and stay on the platform specifically for that reason, are following a very different set of accounts and they're getting a huge, daily dose of empowerment as Elon lets it flow freely, even engages in it regularly. Again, intentionally.
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Call me paranoid, but a ton of money is at stake over platforms that used to be useful in terms of spreading information. And they're both being tanked at the same time? During heightening 'geopolitical tensions'? And in the face of a strange upcoming election in the United States where both platforms started and are based?
Don't attribute the to maliciousness what can be attributed to the incompetence
Hanlon's Razor
It fits well here.
Perhaps, in Twitter's case. I don't know.
In Reddit's case it's simply a moron aping another; I don't think that Huffman has the depth of thought necessary to evaluate the impact of his own actions.
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I'm going Hanlon's Razor on the motive with everyone else here but the fact these platforms were so important to the last election and a failure to capture that influence is the reason they are sinking now. Anyone with a plan is definitely not succeeding and I'm not buying that any of this is 4D chess.
Am I the only one who is frustrated about the text placement over the colors?
I think they wanted to avoid "Reddit Twitter becoming becoming worse worse"
For me, it's not the text placement itself but the mapping of color and text. Reddit should be red, Twitter should be blue 🧐
yes
I'm colorblind so I could be way off... But it looks like the red one is Twitter and the blue one is Reddit which just seems ironic lol
You're 100% correct
Fuck spez and elmo.
The enshitification continues
I think rich people are working really hard to try and get the republicans in power next election, that should probably tell you all you need to know about how to vote
I more likes on my tweets than ever since Elon took over! ...And the increase is all bots.
And here comes Discord with steel chair!
In 2023... Why would you use either?
to be where the people are?
I love the idea of our little corner of the Internet, but it doesn't have the content or the users of the incumbents.
Ewww, people. No thanks.
As a people myself, I find your comment wildly insensitive.
But also incredibly accurate.
Conceptually I get what you're saying, but I've never used Twitter and I dropped Reddit in July cold turkey.
I have had no issues being where the people are just sticking to the Fediverse.
I don't feel like I've missed anything. I did pick up Mastodon, but that's just lurking. I picked up a few news apps to fill in a blank or two, but those usually end up on Lemmy anyway.
I gotta drop Reddit. News is all about Trump and everything else is either petty or misinformation.
Welcome to the consequences of driving away competent moderation...
Trump and more generally Conservative bashing has been blaring out of Reddit at top volume since the 2016 elections and every election cycle they find new ways to make it even louder and more obnoxious. This year's moderator exodus really had nothing to do with it. Yes Trump and many Conservatives should be beamed directly to a secret underground moon base and held incommunicado until their natural deaths but the fact that the conversation can't ever be shifted to anything else is so tiring.
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