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this post was submitted on 15 May 2025
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They mean - maximize irritation? Put ads in the most obnoxious way?
There's a good global task for FOSS alternatives of YouTube and other places where life happens.
A decentralized scraper. Something similar to SETI@home, or that hentai analog for storage. So that based on some metric YT content would be divided between users willing to contribute their machines and accounts to scraping YT (a bit similar to searching DHT, and probably some kind of DHT would be useful), and then they'd download that and re-publish in some p2p alternative.
TBH probably also good for that little of the web that is still possible to represent as static pages and browse via links.
The issue is that alternatives lack content, and the closed nature of proprietary services gives them an advantage - there is content there which doesn't exist outside of them.
And people just reuploading by hand what they themselves consider interesting are a little fraction of the majority that doesn't bother.
Maybe I'm old or smthing, but for the past years content on yt mostly sucks.
Few interesting and original channels and then galaxy of reacts to, recaps and AI garbage slop reading Reddit.
Our YouTube experiences are vastly different. Their algorithm frustrates me because it consistently serves up interesting videos I want to watch when I open the app to seek out something specific. My Watch Later playlist has become huge.