YouTube's Latest Update Shows That Online Monoculture Is Dead
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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
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When was this?
Asking as someone who’s been on the Internet since 1989.
Ever since facebook
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Yeah, but Youtubers make it more entertaining
Catering to conspiracy theories is what got us the far right.
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Ever since facebook
Facebook was fine at first. I remember excitedly hearing that my school was added to the list of approved schools to get a Facebook account.
Not sure if problems started when it was expanded beyond just listed colleges, or if it was just the public stories or wall or whatever it's called.
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Catering to conspiracy theories is what got us the far right.
Technically unopposed bigotry is the reason we have the far right
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Technically unopposed bigotry is the reason we have the far right
That's very Chicken vs Egg for me. In the metaphorical sense anyway.
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Facebook was fine at first. I remember excitedly hearing that my school was added to the list of approved schools to get a Facebook account.
Not sure if problems started when it was expanded beyond just listed colleges, or if it was just the public stories or wall or whatever it's called.
Facebook was never fine; it just wasn’t a silo effect at first—but it was still a privacy and security nightmare.
