15-20 years or so ago. Whenever smartphones became the dominant communications tool, and pretty much everyone had access to the internet from their pocket square.

Been online since '93 myself at pretty much the dawn of the World Wide Web.

Tried newpipe when I migrated from reddit. It worked 50% of thw time. Any better now?

I remember cliques and a lack of online monoculture on Usenet and IRC before the World Wide Web even existed; the web exploded things even further, as did the privatization of DNS and takeover of funding by VCs and ad conglomerates. All that had happened by 1998.

AltStore + YTLitePlus

Really? It feels like theres a lot less diversity of thought on the internet now. I used to be able to jump on stumbleupon and find a website about psilocybin, or someone's insane ramblings about the new world order. Now its all just crap. Used to be the world was too far away, used to be the stars didn't have much to say.

Yeah people use all sorts of stuff that you don't. Wild, isn't it?

i’ve got a yt channel i woulda loved to get on nebula, but it’s some kinda invite only system and i didn’t get an invite.

i’m super over yt and the $130 a month i get from them…. $130(ish) for a 50 hour a week job.

Sometimes wish we could go back to BBS's and MUDs

Even then there were things that were more or less known in all corners of the Internet. You could mention things like SCP, 'Charlie bit my finger', or My Immortal on any forum and people there would recognize it.

Now it's all fragmented. Someone can mention something that's a massive phenomenon in one part of the platform and no one else on the same platform would recognise it. For example, I only recently heard about backrooms and apparently it has been a thing for half a decade. That's a long time in internet years.

...backrooms?

It's so weird. 6 months ago I hadn't heard of that guy, but suddenly in the last month he's showing up in my feed.

I use new pipe if I heed. It's like a window into a crazy house. You can see what's going on, but you can't have a say.

I'm a little surprised there's no reference to The House on Ash Tree Lane in that wiki article

I think the most interesting thing is that you don't see any rage bait in that screenshot. It seems the grift is working as intended to me.

On Apple: safari + AdGuard

Or: Orion browser

I wish NewPipe or Freetube had their own comment community.

Safari + AdGuard used to work on my iPad, but it has recently been blocked with a disable Ad-block message.
Orion works for me when I disable all build-in content blocking and using the Firefox version of Ublock Origin.

I think the build-in blocker is too basic and gets detected by YouTube, while ublock works (everywhere I've tested it, desktop, android, iPad)

Thanks for Orion tip, didn’t know that

Lol haven't used the app for like at least 7 years? Maybe even 10 years. Haven't used the app as soon as I learned what an adblocker is, using uBlock Origin on Firefox.

I don't "subscribe" to anyone either, I just keep a list of everyone who I wanna watch and check everyone channel like once every 3 days. Takes like 3 minutes to go through the list of like around 20 channels. No accounts, all done over a no-log VPN to a privacy-friendly country.