Post B2zcrQrJBxtjDOgFMW by rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link
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(DIR) Post #B2yn1SMzEZGzBFxM2q by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-04T13:49:13.265834Z
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"why don't you use youtube" I need to find a good critique of youtube to forward to friends
(DIR) Post #B2ynFEto78xTSLsclc by EllisDee@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-04T13:51:42.768250Z
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@bleedingphoenix you don't fall asleep to cat video compilations?
(DIR) Post #B2ynJHag37nOxhrOIS by theorytoe@ak.kyaruc.moe
2026-02-04T13:52:12.455443Z
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@bleedingphoenix "its filled with grifter shit and has basically zero creativity, people are also endlessly following the algo and optimizing their channel for it, so its hard to find anything that isnt over-edited garbage"
(DIR) Post #B2ynfgE18hzPjewPJo by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-04T13:56:29.273147Z
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@theorytoe well I told them I'm making an odysee channel because I just want to upload stuff without having to get on the algorithm rat race, and my friend was confused by this.
(DIR) Post #B2ynlFrI5BOhhMy8vo by latein@cawfee.club
2026-02-04T13:57:28.489707Z
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@bleedingphoenix full of slop, LLM spawn or otherwise, moderation bots ruin the comment section, frontpage ignores your subscriptions, they go out of their way to make content unarchivable etc.
(DIR) Post #B2yoqdXDa9psWzi6hE by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-04T14:09:40.212877Z
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@theorytoe what's funny is that one of my friends is trying to get his channel off the ground and he made a whole new one because the algorithm's been favoring brand new channels
(DIR) Post #B2yxRMSynuhPwUkbAG by Kazak@shin.mugicha.club
2026-02-04T15:35:26.676083Z
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"because it's gay"
(DIR) Post #B2yxT5wnC17lHwWPzM by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-04T15:46:08.190941Z
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@Kazak very true
(DIR) Post #B2yxlQta2x8lTElPKy by MeBigbrain@poa.st
2026-02-04T15:49:35.481370Z
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@Kazak @bleedingphoenix
(DIR) Post #B2yy6LRPWMGIdSYizw by eee@poa.st
2026-02-04T15:50:39.988059Z
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@MeBigbrain @Kazak @bleedingphoenix
(DIR) Post #B2zcrQrJBxtjDOgFMW by rozenglass@fedi.dreamscape.link
2026-02-04T23:28:26Z
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@bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar Fundamentally, I don't use YouTube for the same reason I don't use HackerNews or many other "useful" sites: because there is an infinite amount of useful and good information, enough to completely drown me, and prevent me from getting anything actually done. Any information that I won't use, no matter how curious, is not worth wasting part of my life on. Even information that can be of great use is so numerous that it can spam me into a grinding halt. I'm a very curious person, so places like YouTube can be a massive time-sink. Especially with how slow videos in general are at delivering information. I can get information from reading way faster than I can get them from watching videos, even at x2.5 to x3 playback speed.Another reason why I don't use YouTube is how much information it can leak about my psychology and interests to a powerful corporation that I don't want to have so much information about me. This is more workable with 3rd party front-ends like yt-dlp and invidious, but YouTube is cracking down on them more and more, and it's becoming a real hassle to watch YouTube without having to sign in "to prove I'm not a robot". The more they tighten, the less I watch YouTube.When I used to use invidious and such, I would actively block the recommendations section using uBlock Origin's element zapper feature, because I don't want my mind and attention to be steered by the whims of the big corporation, its advertisers, its algorithms, or even the collective of YouTube watchers in case the algorithm was really completely unbiased in its recommendations. I want my mind to give its attention to the things I want to do long-term, not to the things everyone is talking about short term. Thus, the only way for me to see a video is for me to search for a topic specifically, or, for someone I know to give me a link to the video. Slowly, I even stopped using the search, because even that is tainted with the algorithmic preference.In general, YouTube is slowly going more and more user-hostile, in my perception, and their attempts at milking more and more money are very obvious. This also reflects on the culture of the video producers seeking popularity, as their approach becomes more and more obnoxious and offensive to the intellect. It is sad that YouTube are the sole holders of a massive amount of human knowledge and history produced by millions of people, and that if they go down, most of it would be gone. All more the reason for us to try to "diversify" internet video production away from that single point of failure.Personally, I do have a few slow YT channels I still subscribe to using RSS feeds, and watch using yt-dlp, but very few and infrequent, and with no risk of run-away rabbit holing. If at some point, watching those videos without using YouTube's web frontend or apps becomes unavoidable, I will stop completely.I think I would have no qualm about using YouTube for publishing, for additional "exposure", granted I keep my identity and personal information leakage to a minimum. But I would only do it as a secondary "mirror" of my published material elsewhere, because I don't want to push people who want to listen to me to have to use a platform that doesn't respect them or their privacy, and tries constantly to manipulate them. I would guide the viewers to watch my videos on other platforms in every video I publish to YouTube. This doubles also as protection against being censored or kicked out by YouTube in the future, for any reason. Of course, publishing on my own site and server would be the preferred method, all other services would be mirrors, but that would be hundreds of dollars of hosting expenses at least for anything serious, so, using service platforms might be the only feasible option for some.
(DIR) Post #B2zmO9eD6SM2ylERGq by porkcow@shitposter.world
2026-02-05T01:16:50.095728Z
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@bleedingphoenix @theorytoe I don't like how picky Odysee is about file types. I'd backup my vimeo content otherwise.
(DIR) Post #B2zp0StkB72Rb0tR4q by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-05T01:46:03.833210Z
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@porkcow @theorytoe oh, what's the limit on file formats?
(DIR) Post #B301MGC9Htx41Df30C by porkcow@shitposter.world
2026-02-05T04:04:34.175322Z
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@bleedingphoenix @theorytoe It doesn't play AVIs, that's all I know
(DIR) Post #B3047NaPpA2qSfbjE0 by bleedingphoenix@wolfgirl.bar
2026-02-05T04:35:28.537422Z
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@porkcow @theorytoe I actually was wondering about formats earlier, yesterday I saw an Odyssee upload that was just a .iso file, no option to play only download. I don't know what the limits of the site are for file sharing.