• KptnAutismus@lemmy.world
    551·
    1 year ago

    we have alternatives to both. people just need to switch.

    but youtube is really hard to replace.

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.world
      62·
      1 year ago

      My alternative to youtube is reading books from the local library and playing the guitar.
      The decline of reddit and youtube especially has done wonders to my quality of life.

      • Cowbee@lemm.ee
        3·
        1 year ago

        Newpipe is great, for me. I don’t have a steady stream of recommendations or shorts, just content I actually subscribe to and whatever is trending if I go there, or manually search for.

        The infection of ads into every corner of Social media legitimately was making me a worse person, with a shorter attention span and no mental clarity.

    • 768@sh.itjust.works
      9·
      1 year ago

      Don’t worry, there’s TikTok. /s

      SEO might actually enshittificate YT or make it dependant on AI. Both are hard to deal with from a privacy or open source POV.

  • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
    63·
    1 year ago

    I think rich people are working really hard to try and get the republicans in power next election, that should probably tell you all you need to know about how to vote

  • Dark Arc@social.packetloss.ggEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    I’m colorblind so I could be way off… But it looks like the red one is Twitter and the blue one is Reddit which just seems ironic lol

    • jivandabeast@lemmy.browntown.dev
      65·
      1 year ago

      What’s happened to YouTube? It’s been more or less the same experience for me.

      Unless this is about ads? But tbh i don’t even consider that to be remotely on the same scale as the issues with Reddit and Twitter

      • Arello@sopuli.xyz
        2·
        1 year ago

        At least they’ve had (bad) attempts at blocking adblockers recently. Search function has became almost unusable etc.

      • pastbynow@lemmy.world
        2·
        1 year ago

        There are multiple workarounds for YouTube ads like Revanced on Android for example. On Computer I didn’t encounter any issues for using the uBlock Origin extension.

      • Meowoem@sh.itjust.works
        81·
        1 year ago

        They have a few problems like demoneytising for arbitrary reasons, over zealous moderation on some topics and almost zero on others - I think things are starting to relax a bit but there was a time where history channels would avoid saying the word Hitler or Nazi in their documentary about ww2. Likewise if a film or news story has someone ‘commit the unthinkable’ and ‘unalive themselves’ it can make hard topics much more difficult.

        There’s a lot of engagement spam too, so many channels doing fake restorations, fake pool building, fake animal rescues… Then the ones which just have an ai voice reading fake stories from Reddit, chat gpt gibberish, or awful old jokes copy pasted from old books.

        There is amazing content too though of course and I think it’s by far the best place to get entertainment and education resources

  • greenhorn@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I more likes on my tweets than ever since Elon took over! …And the increase is all bots.

    • sbv@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      203·
      1 year ago

      to be where the people are?

      I love the idea of our little corner of the Internet, but it doesn’t have the content or the users of the incumbents.

      • MimicJar@lemmy.world
        81·
        1 year ago

        Conceptually I get what you’re saying, but I’ve never used Twitter and I dropped Reddit in July cold turkey.

        I have had no issues being where the people are just sticking to the Fediverse.

        I don’t feel like I’ve missed anything. I did pick up Mastodon, but that’s just lurking. I picked up a few news apps to fill in a blank or two, but those usually end up on Lemmy anyway.

            • Buelldozer@lemmy.today
              51·
              1 year ago

              Trump and more generally Conservative bashing has been blaring out of Reddit at top volume since the 2016 elections and every election cycle they find new ways to make it even louder and more obnoxious. This year’s moderator exodus really had nothing to do with it. Yes Trump and many Conservatives should be beamed directly to a secret underground moon base and held incommunicado until their natural deaths but the fact that the conversation can’t ever be shifted to anything else is so tiring.

          • baked_tea@lemmy.world
            22·
            1 year ago

            Well what you described isn’t too different here… except there is more hardcore tankies here

            • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
              01·
              1 year ago

              I love Lemmy users bashing on Reddit as if Lemmy is any better. Both are pretty authoritarian left. Though I don’t have enough experience here to speak to the moderation, but given time I’m sure it’ll be just as bad.

    • SpookyUnderwear@eviltoast.orgEnglish
      02·
      1 year ago

      Easy. Twitter is where my metal homies are. Reddit for baseball. I don’t care about the political angle of each. That’s not why I’m there.

    • credit crazy@lemmy.world
      141·
      1 year ago

      Wouldn’t exactly say fashisim is to blame but rather simply corpos want maximize profit on a hinherently unprofitable business models. Like I’m personally not seeing much ideology getting pushed anywhere. Granted I hardly spend time on Twitter but all I’ve been seein on x is furry tits and on the other platforms just ads getting pushed. From what I can tell you can say what ever and no one will hear you over the ads.