Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

  • flo@dresden.network
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    1 year ago

    @4am @swan_pr
    For me, it depends on the topic of the video.
    E.g. there are “full courses” about “learning HTML/CSS” or “Svelte” or anything frontend development related, that work for me.

    And I don’t watch any youtube video on youtube anymore, but only use an invidious server, like yewtu.be - works like a charme (most of the time).

    No ads, no tracking, no algorithm \o/

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      1 year ago

      Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don’t people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we’re all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)