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[–] 01189998819991197253 43 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I mean, have you met people?

I mean... I try not to

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago

Of course. Same here. But those videos would work on any network, not just Google's. The reasons they're there are plenty, and I won't pretend to know them all. However yt started as an entertainment space, and shifted into other spaces. What I'm proposing, is that we can have those spaces elsewhere, but we need to start somewhere. The easiest way to get people to start doing something, is by making it entertaining.

[–] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago

You're right, but I never said perfect. Perfect doesn't exist. I'm looking for reasonable and sustainable. Projects like framework and libreboot are making this possible for the first time in history. But, like you eluded to, they, too, won't be perfect.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago

When I visited your country, every hotel had them. Except for one pretentious shite (who asked the father of a very clearly choking little girl to go outside so she wouldn't chud on the carpet, the father looked ready to throw a fist at his face, and, honestly, I would have joined), they were all quite friendly. Real chaps.

[–] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago

At least the mercenaries do exactly what they claim they'll do.

[–] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Lemmy is a good case study, I would say. Reddit was the epitome of "the front page", until it wasn't. Then many moved to Lemmy, and it was just ok for a while. Now it's getting to where Reddit was before it lost its shite. Not a perfect comparison due to the YouTube monetization, I know, but a good rags->riches->enshitified->rags->riches story. And production quality is much less important, IMO, than content. And, yes, content did increase over the years, but a part of that was video editing technology improvement. Let's take LTT as an example. Before monetization, they had low production quality, but incredible content value videos. Now, the production value (and their paychecks) improved a lot, but the content value isn't what it used to be. It's not bad, it's just less focused on what it used to be. Is that bad? Probably not. But it also means we can start over, and get to the same monetization that we're at now, but without enshitification.

Edit: and I'm not even touching "influencers" in the main comment, who, IMO, don't matter in the grand scheme. They can stay on yt or disappear completely. In fact, if they did disappear, it would make a significant positive impact to the overall content library.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I know all this and that's not filling me with confidence, either. It's why Framework is in my sights.

[–] 01189998819991197253 2 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's what I do. With degoogled os. But the proprietary blobs aren't filling me with confidence.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago

Ah ok cool. I'm glad they have that option.

[–] 01189998819991197253 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's not in fdroid, yet. Hopefully soon! Thanks!

[–] 01189998819991197253 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hahahhaahahah!! I didn't want to be too forward hahha

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