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With the war in Pakistan i had to download reddit, insta and twitter to keep up.

I genuinely despise them so much and going back to non lemmy social media after so long just reminds me of how fucking grateful I am that Lemmy exists.

Bluesky is fine simply bc there is noone there. The people who post moved but the masses didn't.

LinkedIn in lunatics.

Reddit is probably the one ive ended up gating more than any other despite it being the one I could bear pre Lemmy.

Twitter I haven't used much anyways. But feels horrible with the limited use.

Insta is all thirst traps somehow.

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[โ€“] narr1@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, that (the video hosting) is why I'm still using it. I started using Youtube in high school at the latest, so around 20 years ago (Youtube was launched in -05 so it couldn't be earlier) and it's the only one from those days I still use. But because everything tries to be a social media, and because of Alphabet's rampant capitalism and the continued enshittification of everything it lies its grubby, fat, little fingers (kinda like DJT's in a way), it has those disgusting aspects of social media forced on its users.

btw have you encountered the forced AI voice translation of videos yet? if there is one part of modern internet that I hate and absolutely despise the most, that causes more rashes than ads and more epileptic fits than all of the AI slop you can force down my throat, is when the internet is in my own language when it shouldn't be and I have never asked it to be. if I'd want to watch shit in my own language I'd fucking search for shit in my own language, and there is a reason I never do (because it's shit and cringe as fuck). if you're gonna offer this service to the unwashed masses, at least let them op out. But no, it's always on by default, and the video creator has to turn it off.

Ive seen ai videos with ai voices. Including translations. I despise it all. Just skip all ai slop, but never forced translations. Just stuff that people have translated and posted. Didnt realise yt was doing this.

Ofc auto subtitle translations ive used