we have alternatives to both. people just need to switch.
but youtube is really hard to replace.
Don't worry, there's TikTok. /s
SEO might actually enshittificate YT or make it dependant on AI. Both are hard to deal with from a privacy or open source POV.
What about Peertube as an alternative?
Like, I use neither. Just curious.
Hard to monetize + server costs
Perfect from the user side but not that great for content creators and server owners
Nebula.tv has some promise. It's not free but it's very cheap and creator-owned. Plus there's no ads. But it can never be a true replacement for Youtube because it doesn't allow just anyone to upload there.
A direct, very intentional, assault on major social media by fascists.
Wouldn't exactly say fashisim is to blame but rather simply corpos want maximize profit on a hinherently unprofitable business models. Like I'm personally not seeing much ideology getting pushed anywhere. Granted I hardly spend time on Twitter but all I've been seein on x is furry tits and on the other platforms just ads getting pushed. From what I can tell you can say what ever and no one will hear you over the ads.
There is not much „maximizing profit“ in allowing fascists back on twitter. Elon is throwing money away for his political goals.
I have Twitter completely blocked, just from the news alone it's clear Elon is pushing a political agenda at the expense of the business, which means it's the intended point, because he's not dumb. It doesn't matter what you specifically would see in your timeline these days, assuming you would follow better-than-garbage people. The platform is directly being advertised to the world as a place for fascist ideology to go unchecked. The people that know that, and stay on the platform specifically for that reason, are following a very different set of accounts and they're getting a huge, daily dose of empowerment as Elon lets it flow freely, even engages in it regularly. Again, intentionally.
Twitter, instagram, facebook, reddit -- DNS blocked on my network. The addition of that simple friction to viewing those sites has completely broken me of the crutch. [Plus the Murdock-block plugin and I'm in a great place.]
I went an extra step and made myself a Firefox add-on a few years ago. It takes a regular expression, scans all element attributes for values matching the expression, and applies a given CSS style to those elements. Given a pattern like... (Holy hell, you can't really post a regular expression on lemmy, it's trying to do some markdown stuff to it, but it involves the domains of all the sites I hate like twitter.com, x.com, facebook.com, etc...), and the style visibility: hidden, all links to those sites, no matter what page I'm on, are completely removed from my internet experience. I never see them.
Edit: Oh the regex issue was actually because my add-on was filtering the elements with twitter.com, x.com, etc. as it's supposed to :) I can't even see my own comment unless I turn it off.
That's amazing! Do you have the source anywhere? I've always wanted to dabble in simple Firefox plugins
Extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ssure/
Source: https://github.com/7w0/ssure
Be warned, the UI is just a textarea that takes JSON and involves escaping characters for both JS strings and regular expressions in the same string. regex requires backslashes to escape things like '.' and JS requires backslashes to be doubled to output a single backslash 😬 The example escaped JSON at the bottom of the options screen should be enough to figure out how to add your own domains to the list. The only reason it's a public plugin is because it's literally impossible to just run a plugin from a local source without having to do a ton of extra steps every time you start the browser. Also, you'll occasionally get confused why things don't seem right on the internet, like when I tried to talk about this plugin and mentioned twitter.com, causing my own comment to look messed up after I posted it, because the plugin was doing exactly what I told it to do :)
Don't be surprised when you find a new fork in the morning 🌞🌄
Am I the only one who is frustrated about the text placement over the colors?
I think they wanted to avoid "Reddit Twitter becoming becoming worse worse"
For me, it's not the text placement itself but the mapping of color and text. Reddit should be red, Twitter should be blue 🧐
yes
I'm colorblind so I could be way off... But it looks like the red one is Twitter and the blue one is Reddit which just seems ironic lol
i will pray for your sensor array comrade
Easily top 10 replies to "I'm colorblind so I could be way off" 😂
How did you do the animated profile pic? I tried GIF, I tried WebP, it didn't work.
You're 100% correct
The enshitification continues
And here comes Discord with steel chair!
I more likes on my tweets than ever since Elon took over! ...And the increase is all bots.
In 2023... Why would you use either?
to be where the people are?
I love the idea of our little corner of the Internet, but it doesn't have the content or the users of the incumbents.
Ewww, people. No thanks.
Conceptually I get what you're saying, but I've never used Twitter and I dropped Reddit in July cold turkey.
I have had no issues being where the people are just sticking to the Fediverse.
I don't feel like I've missed anything. I did pick up Mastodon, but that's just lurking. I picked up a few news apps to fill in a blank or two, but those usually end up on Lemmy anyway.
Also because it's convenient.
I think rich people are working really hard to try and get the republicans in power next election, that should probably tell you all you need to know about how to vote
Does that say sprik?
It's why I moved over to Kbin / Mbin lol
Call me paranoid, but a ton of money is at stake over platforms that used to be useful in terms of spreading information. And they're both being tanked at the same time? During heightening 'geopolitical tensions'? And in the face of a strange upcoming election in the United States where both platforms started and are based?
Add Youtube to the list...
Yeah YouTube is one of the more annoying ones imo
Yeah. Lack of any viable alternatives really sucks with YouTube in particular. Hosting video is too damn expensive.
To me the most annoying part is everyone is so entrenched in youtube they either need to accept its a service they should pay for or start looking at migrating. There cant be any viable alternative if there isn't an audience.
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