Add Youtube to the list…
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
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
They have a few problems like demoneytising for arbitrary reasons, over zealous moderation on some topics and almost zero on others - I think things are starting to relax a bit but there was a time where history channels would avoid saying the word Hitler or Nazi in their documentary about ww2. Likewise if a film or news story has someone ‘commit the unthinkable’ and ‘unalive themselves’ it can make hard topics much more difficult.
There’s a lot of engagement spam too, so many channels doing fake restorations, fake pool building, fake animal rescues… Then the ones which just have an ai voice reading fake stories from Reddit, chat gpt gibberish, or awful old jokes copy pasted from old books.
There is amazing content too though of course and I think it’s by far the best place to get entertainment and education resources
At least they’ve had (bad) attempts at blocking adblockers recently. Search function has became almost unusable etc.
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.
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
Perfect from the user side but not that great for content creators and server owners
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.
Corporations make strange bedfellows when the bottom line is on the line.
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.
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.]
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.
That’s amazing! Do you have the source anywhere? I’ve always wanted to dabble in simple Firefox plugins
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 :)
Don’t be surprised when you find a new fork in the morning 🌞🌄
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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.
Twitter is bought out by a raging right-wing sociopath who literally coups other countries for resources, purposefully affects public policy at every opportunity, and habitually pumps n’ dumps crypto and stocks, and you think it’s impossible for him to have destroyed the platform that used to be the international commons on purpose??? Please justify your reasoning, I can’t wait.
and you think it’s impossible for him to have destroyed the platform that used to be the international commons on purpose???
Don’t be a liar. Or worse, assumptive trash eager to put words onto the others’ mouths.
I did not say anything remotely interpretable as that. I literally said “Perhaps, in Twitter’s case. I don’t know.”
Please justify your reasoning, I can’t wait.
I’m not justifying the claim that you’re lying (or assuming) that I made.
Please go back to Reddit, where assumptiveness and illiteracy are praised and cheered.
[I apologise to other users in this community for my tone, but I think that it’s warranted here.]
Apologies, I suppose. I read it as “perhaps, except in Twitters case.”
I won’t go back to Reddit, but I will lay down, do some reflecting, and cry a bit. Cheers!
Apologies, I suppose. I read it as “perhaps, except in Twitters case.”
Apology accepted. I also apologise for the tone.
If you want my opinion on Twitter: I’m not too informed on the platform but I think that he did it on purpose, and due to stupidity. He is a right-wing sociopath and a moron with enough money to become too big to fail.
A smart but malicious person in Musk’s shoes would’ve likely introduced the changes slowly, boiling the frogs there, shifting the Overton window to the right, in a way that benefits rich people in detriment to everyone else - because that would benefit Musk himself. Twitter as “the international commons” makes it valuable for anyone to spread shitty discourses there, in a way that they reach governments directly.
But instead of seizing the tool for his own purposes, he broke it.
That is an apt take that I fully, 100% condone.
I love these kind of unnecessarily hostile interactions that deflate almost immediately and end on a good tone. Cheers!
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
i will pray for your sensor array comrade
Easily top 10 replies to “I’m colorblind so I could be way off” 😂
How did you do the animated profile pic? I tried GIF, I tried WebP, it didn’t work.
You’re 100% correct
Fuck spez and elmo.
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
The enshitification continues
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.
Well what you described isn’t too different here… except there is more hardcore tankies here
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.
Also because it’s convenient.
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.
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!
Does that say sprik?
It’s why I moved over to Kbin / Mbin lol
