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

This may not work out the way I want it to, but I'm actually a little excited about these tech companies making a bunch of anti-consumer decisions all at once. So many mainstream users will be looking for alternatives, and it's going to provide a great opportunity for non-profit open source projects. It's already happening with the fediverse suddenly becoming a viable place for discussion in the last 1.5 years. After Windows Recall was announced, I've seen more people talking about switching to Linux than ever before. Part of me can't wait for unskippable Youtube ads.

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  • [–] 43 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    People often decry accelerationism, but the reality is that the slow-boiled frog is the one that sits and dies. Chipping away at freedoms, consumer protections, product benefits, etc is all less likely to spark backlash than when they drop sharply in a short time.

    That doesn't mean you should help to make things worse, but it does mean that you may want to reconsider constantly mitigating every bad thing that others are doing, rather than letting them shoot themselves in the foot. When people are being hurt, help them. When people are being inconvenienced, let them get angry.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    This looks like a very classical and well-known case of executives copying each other.

    That other company is doing layoffs and seems fine? Reports the line going up? Let's do it, too!

    The guys across the street are already implementing AI? Investors love it? Let do it, too! We may have taken a risk with blockchain, but this one is just sure to work better for us!

    The big name is going for the money, predator-style, and they're still afloat? Finally, we can cash out, too!

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    After Windows Recall was announced, I've seen more people talking about switching to Linux than ever before.

    I've been the Linux zealot in my friend group for years, and none of them have switched (they've dabbled on old laptops but never daily drove).

    With Recall, a coworker I never would have expected reached out to me because he knows I'm a "Linux guy" and he was switching to Linux over it.

    He's still daily driving pop_OS a month later.

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    [–] 46 points 2 years ago

    Of course they do. They want to keep control over monetization. They don't care about creators at all.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    This sucks for so many. People use timestamps for content warnings or to help viewers avoid spoilers. Commenters use timestamps when talking about the content of the video. It's insane to change this once it's so ingrained in how people use the website.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I'd imagine YouTube subtracts the ad length from posted timestamps when clicking a link containing one. But we are taking about Google, soooooo...

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In the cat and mouse game, the cat can adjust tactics but the mice eventually figure out an alternative route. I'm sure they will find a way with this. Either that or a lot of people will just stop watching YouTube, I'd imagine.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago*

    It will end up being like FreeVee on Prime for anyone who's ever watched a movie or anything on there. They straight up randomly just inject ads in at random times, often not even during scene breaks. Characters are sometimes mid-sentence... Oh, and we're back to the volume of the ads being 2x louder than the movie itself because I guess that law Congress passed way back in the day only applied to cable and broadcast TV.

    It makes it nearly unwatchable. So get ready for that experience.

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  • [–] 38 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    All his stuff is on youtube. Why doesn't he upload to peertube? :/ It seems like he doesn't like youtube a lot but his content only exists there.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • [–] 62 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    Because that's where the audience is. Peertube is deader than the lemmyverse. You are essentially making the silly "but yet you choose to live in society" argument.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mean we're sitting here on the lemmyverse having a conversation..

    But yeah creators should upload to peertube but they won't get any meaningful viewership there. The only way to break the network affect stranglehold google/youtube has over video content on the internet is making sure that if you do produce that content it's available via other channels.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 years ago

    You are essentially making the silly "but yet you choose to live in society" argument.

    I don't think so. OP wasn't saying to stop uploading to YouTube, but to upload to alternate sites as well and maybe lead their audiences there by mentioning it in videos.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago

    Monetization is one of the main problem of PeerTube, it's more expensive to make videos than to write threads, and while on YouTube/Odysee/Rumble content creators earn money, on peertube they often need to pay to instance operators to pay for hosting

    User experience for peertube is not the best too, while in the most of the Fediverse for instance to connect with other instances a user just needs to follow someone on it, on peertube instance owner needs to add instances to the list to federate their content

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  • [–] [S] 17 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Quick reminder that you are on Beehaw. There's only one rule here, and this sort of dismissive take does not adhere to it. Please find something substantive to dismiss.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    What do you mean. He was rude. Am I supposed to continue engaging with that? I don't enjoy abuse.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago

    I find it funny that this is the first video where I'm consistently getting the "This helps us protect our community" and "Log in to confirm that you are not a bot" errors while using an alternative Frontend.

    I'm sure it's just a random coincidence, but it is still funny to me.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    ↑ painting :)

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

    And yet, despite everyone complaining, YouTube knows damn well no one is going to stop using their shit so they’ll continue to do whatever they want.

    Maybe people should just…. Stop using YouTube. That or don’t complain when they fuck over the content creators and users of their platform.

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