• Daft_ish@lemmy.world
          10·
          11 months ago

          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.

    • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
      8·
      11 months ago

      What’s happened to YouTube? It’s been more or less the same experience for me.

      Unless this is about ads? But tbh i don’t even consider that to be remotely on the same scale as the issues with Reddit and Twitter

      • Arello@sopuli.xyz
        3·
        11 months ago

        At least they’ve had (bad) attempts at blocking adblockers recently. Search function has became almost unusable etc.

      • pastbynow@lemmy.world
        2·
        11 months ago

        There are multiple workarounds for YouTube ads like Revanced on Android for example. On Computer I didn’t encounter any issues for using the uBlock Origin extension.

    • 768@sh.itjust.works
      12·
      11 months ago

      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.

    • Holyhandgrenade@lemmy.world
      9·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • Cowbee@lemm.ee
        4·
        11 months ago

        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.

    • Opafi@feddit.de
      6·
      11 months ago

      What about Peertube as an alternative?

      Like, I use neither. Just curious.

    • credit crazy@lemmy.world
      15·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • lemmylommy@lemmy.world
        15·
        11 months ago

        There is not much „maximizing profit“ in allowing fascists back on twitter. Elon is throwing money away for his political goals.

      • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        7·
        11 months ago

        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.

        • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
          3·
          11 months ago

          Twitter, instagram, facebook, reddit – DNS blocked on my network. The addition of that simple friction to viewing those sites has completely broken me of the crutch. [Plus the Murdock-block plugin and I’m in a great place.]

          • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            3·
            11 months ago

            I went an extra step and made myself a Firefox add-on a few years ago. It takes a regular expression, scans all element attributes for values matching the expression, and applies a given CSS style to those elements. Given a pattern like… (Holy hell, you can’t really post a regular expression on lemmy, it’s trying to do some markdown stuff to it, but it involves the domains of all the sites I hate like twitter.com, x.com, facebook.com, etc…), and the style visibility: hidden, all links to those sites, no matter what page I’m on, are completely removed from my internet experience. I never see them.

            Edit: Oh the regex issue was actually because my add-on was filtering the elements with twitter.com, x.com, etc. as it’s supposed to :) I can’t even see my own comment unless I turn it off.

            • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              11 months ago

              That’s amazing! Do you have the source anywhere? I’ve always wanted to dabble in simple Firefox plugins

              • jtk@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
                2·
                11 months ago

                Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/

                Source: https://github.com/7w0/ssure

                Be warned, the UI is just a textarea that takes JSON and involves escaping characters for both JS strings and regular expressions in the same string. regex requires backslashes to escape things like ‘.’ and JS requires backslashes to be doubled to output a single backslash 😬 The example escaped JSON at the bottom of the options screen should be enough to figure out how to add your own domains to the list. The only reason it’s a public plugin is because it’s literally impossible to just run a plugin from a local source without having to do a ton of extra steps every time you start the browser. Also, you’ll occasionally get confused why things don’t seem right on the internet, like when I tried to talk about this plugin and mentioned twitter.com, causing my own comment to look messed up after I posted it, because the plugin was doing exactly what I told it to do :)

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    17·
    11 months ago

    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

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      19·
      11 months ago

      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.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.world
        9·
        11 months ago

        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.

            • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
              6·
              11 months ago

              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.

          • baked_tea@lemmy.world
            2·
            11 months ago

            Well what you described isn’t too different here… except there is more hardcore tankies here

            • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
              1·
              11 months ago

              I love Lemmy users bashing on Reddit as if Lemmy is any better. Both are pretty authoritarian left. Though I don’t have enough experience here to speak to the moderation, but given time I’m sure it’ll be just as bad.

    • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      2·
      11 months ago

      Easy. Twitter is where my metal homies are. Reddit for baseball. I don’t care about the political angle of each. That’s not why I’m there.

  • greenhorn@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    11 months ago

    I more likes on my tweets than ever since Elon took over! …And the increase is all bots.