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  • The internet has been dying and changing for the worst for a long time.

    Websites trying to be a one stop all on one site that keeps you there are 90% of web traffic these days.

    Having multiple bookmarks for multiple sites for individual reasons are the small user basis.

    Sites like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, tik tok and YouTube etc are the majority of web useage. Gone are the days of forums for bespoke interests.

    Discord as a closed ecosystem with none threaded or web searchable topics.

    Ad ladden shit hole news sites. Click bait shite etc are the norm.

    Gone are the days of enjoyabls fun to explore web surfing.




  • Oh, thought this was an article with facts and figures, no someone’s doomsaying and fear mongering…

    Many YouTube’s third party clients don’t use an API and having a public API with built in ads is a gold mine that many of YouTube’s embeds rely on for revenue. Doubt they’ll destroy that anytime soon.

    Along with that, many of YouTube’s top creators are already looking for alternatives, floatplane, nebula etc… It just takes a mass exodus to kick start them. And you bet Google is aware of that.



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    1 year ago

    Might be an unpopular opinion, but I despised Reddit videos…

    It encouraged outrageous amounts of content theft.

    Sure YouTube sucks. But stealing the content from it isn’t fair on the people who worked incredibly hard to make said content. One of the beast thing about Reddit og days was discovering amazing content creators from people sharing their videos directly from the source. And no, a sticky comment or comment from the “op”, sorry content theif, isn’t good enough. Just sharing the god damn origin of the original source. This also goes for music, news, images, etc. But also, if you don’t like being tracked, use non-tracking links or piped for YouTube etc…

    Tldr, don’t steal content, don’t encourage stealing content. Support the content creators… Stop being lazy with posts and doom scrolling.