otherwise a privacy respecting Chromium browser

With manifest v3 and this thing active on chromium browsers, privacy respecting chromium may not exist.

I mean, have you met people?

I mean… I try not to

Perfekt!

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

Those are entertainment. Entertainment doesn’t have to be strictly mind numbing. Maybe they fall more under edutainment?

They’re too busy finding new ways to inject telemetry and ads into your os, and degrade your experience. It takes a lot of resources to do this.

Edit: ‘to’ to ‘too’. I blame fatigue.

Hahahahaha!! I was sitting there, on the Pick Username screen for a good 5 minutes, singing that song in my head, trying to think of a good username. After a while, I thought to myself, “that’s a good enough username, in done thinking about this”, and sang it out loud as I typed it in… 3

Me, today. But with newpipe. YouTube isn’t a necessity. It’s an entertainment. The moment it becomes too annoying to use, is the moment we stop using it. That’s how entertainment products work… or should work.

I had the displeasure of being called by one from a vendor. It pissed me off that they couldn’t be bothered to pick up the phone and call using a human, with how much we paid them. I canceled that contract and went with a different vendor, and let the sales team know exactly why. LLMs have their place, but my time is not the waste bin.

You looking sleepy-eepy

Early YouTube was exactly this, though. Content creators creating for the sake of the content. Sponsors helped a lot, sure, but the vast majority did it without them. Also, current YouTube, many content creators don’t or can’t monetize. They still create.

Not entirely sure. I would say PeerTube, maybe? There are others, like Odysee, but they tend to have interesting communities (to stay within rules of conduct). But YouTube was similar in its early days, too, so :shrug:

Edit: replied to the wrong comment. Sorry, mate. Moved it to the right chain.

Yeah, I’m not super happy about that part, but don’t really know what to do