YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead
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When was this?
Asking as someone who’s been on the Internet since 1989.
I downloaded my first image from internet in 92, just took a prolonged coffee break (a couple of kilobytes small b&w image).
You must have been in an American uni?
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The trending page of YT is like the r/all of Reddit. If I want to see some stuff I couldn't care less about, that's where I'll find it. I have no idea who actually uses that, but I've never found anything of value there.
The crazy part, IMO, is that there is no way to filter that crap, at all. I'd love a good "front-page" but no.
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People use the youtube app?
How do you cast to your tv?
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Much better! It's definitely much better than when I started using it. I remember it being so buggy at first.
is it just me or doesn't NewPipe no longer populate the recommended tab under yt videos?
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Tried newpipe when I migrated from reddit. It worked 50% of thw time. Any better now?
It tends to break whenever YT updates something, which happens kinda often. PipePipe tends to work as an alternative, but mine never shows the videos' image preview for some reason
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Nebula has certainly improved but I still think they need to put more effort into getting new creators that aren't political or news. I just did a skim through their uploads lists for various topics and news and/or political (or political ish) content is still the most active. Topics like technology and gaming see far less uploads.
It's a side effect of the "no algorithm" philosophy. Without anything to suggest what you might like generating high amounts of new content let's you dominate the feed. News is easy to generate on a daily basis.
The thoughtful channel that puts out a video once every two weeks gets on the feed once every two weeks. Then low effort garbage like man carrying things gets on the feed every day.
They need to at least let users block channels from their feed.
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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.
The internet was best when noone could see qhat you looked like, or your name. Pure thought
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The internet was best when noone could see qhat you looked like, or your name. Pure thought
On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog
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Any iOS alternatives? The ad experience is not great.
Firefox focus, it’s a browser with only 1 tab and built in Adblock.
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IMHO, old internet started to slowly die with the introduction of MySpace, Digg, and even 4chan, I call the period of 2006 to 2010 the slow decline era, then 2010 to 2016 the rapid decline era. 2016 to 2022 is the "classic centralized internet era", and now we have the era of the "new centralized internet", characterized by the peddling of far-right ideologies of these centralized platforms, alongside with the potential rebirth of the old, decentralized internet.
Yeah I have often said that the internet died when conservatives figured out how to use it. And not like the old school "libertarian" nerd conservatives, but like mainstream Republican cultists.
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The internet was best when noone could see qhat you looked like, or your name. Pure thought
looks around
like... here?
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How do you cast to your tv?
You need to?
(SmartTube Next)
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Probably true from about 10 years ago.
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How do you cast to your tv?
SmartTube Next, installed directly on the TV. But when I'm in places where I can't just install random apps on a TV, BubbleUPnP works nicely, as long as you use a chromium based browser. I keep Cromite around just for that, a degoogled chrome variant.
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The crazy part, IMO, is that there is no way to filter that crap, at all. I'd love a good "front-page" but no.
Subscribe to the stuff you care about and ignore everything else. Check the other feeds only when you’re looking for something new.
The recommendation algorithm of YT is actually reasonably good at finding stuff worth watching. Whatever janky trash Reddit calls an algorithm is clearly serving the company more than anyone else.
Lemmy doesn’t even have that kind of an algorithm, so you’ll have to check places like !communitypromo@lemmy.ca when you’re looking for new and interesting stuff. IMO reading the all feed is an exercise in futility, unless you’re really interested in random memes.
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SmartTube Next, installed directly on the TV. But when I'm in places where I can't just install random apps on a TV, BubbleUPnP works nicely, as long as you use a chromium based browser. I keep Cromite around just for that, a degoogled chrome variant.
Thanks for the info, I never stopped using the official app because newpipe can't cast to the tv, and I don't have an Android one to install smart tube, it's much older.
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Tried newpipe when I migrated from reddit. It worked 50% of thw time. Any better now?
It varies, because YT periodically breaks it, but it gets patched up again usually quickly.
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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.
someone’s insane ramblings about the new world order.
We still have plenty of that, everywhere from Twitter to 4chan.
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You're not an internet veteran if you didn't get your start on ARPAnet
Anyone who wasn't online in 1969 is a n00b.
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someone’s insane ramblings about the new world order.
We still have plenty of that, everywhere from Twitter to 4chan.
Yeah, but Youtubers make it more entertaining
