• Victor@lemmy.world
    53·
    4 hours ago

    I like shorts. I say this again and again: Curate your shorts by liking and subscribing. Press “don’t recommend this channel” for shit you don’t want to see.

    Hone your algorithm. 👍

  • Not_Raccoon_Rick@altgag.net
    4·
    7 hours ago

    I just disabled shorts in Youtube Plus, enabled sponsorblock and return YouTube dislike. Modern problems require modern solutions

    • justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      10 hours ago

      i just blocked the entire front page of yt, I don’t remember seeing a single suggested video which i didn’t regret watching.

      • ShredderFeeder@shredderfood.netEnglish
        1·
        10 hours ago

        I go there to look something up. Usually videos on how to replace something on my car, that sort.

        I don’t understand blindly sifting through videos. What’a stupid fucking waste of time.

    • Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      4 hours ago

      The two hurdles I see are viewership (current inertia has everyone browsing on YouTube) and monetization (people rely on ad money that comes from those watching 30sec of insurance slop).

      There are weaknesses in YouTube, like algorithms forcing creators to reach the 10 minute mark, or unfair content ID detection, but we might need a good corporate player to invent something against them. And I do mean a company - content creation is a business for a lot of people, not just an open source project.

      • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
        21·
        12 hours ago

        I’ve used peertube. Not a lot of good stuff on there. And I guess that’s the problem with trying to vie against YouTube – you’ll always start at zero.

        I’d contribute, but I don’t make internet videos.

        • Tangent5280@lemmy.world
          21·
          3 hours ago

          Hey, just a hypothetical, what’s stopping me from making a peertube instance and just adding in a bunch of my favorite youtubers video collections there and letting like minded people watch them? Just the cost/data logistics?

          • FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world
            4·
            1 hour ago

            There’s an ethical consideration in that those youtubers didn’t consent to their work being on peertube.

            But other than that – like technically and in terms of Peertube rules – you might want to ask someone else. I don’t know the answer. Sorry.

        • anonfopyapper@lemmy.world
          4·
          8 hours ago

          Chicken and egg problem. I really wish that more youtubers at least trip loaded their videos on peertube. Peertube even has an option to automatically mirror a YouTube channel effortlessly.

          You can contribute differently. Archive YouTube channels or re-upload memes or video-guides.

          • DeLancre@piefed.socialEnglish
            2·
            11 hours ago

            If only custom roms was available for any phone tho. :c

            Like, I had to buy new phone two years ago, cause my previous phone was falling apart (literally, I had to reglue the screen) and the only good option that was on the market without annoying notch for front-facing camera - was nubia z70. No notch, no weird “eyebrow”, nothing. Just screen, as it fucking supposed to be. Long story short, it have pretty fast snapdragon, but there no roms cause of that. Plus bootloader straight up locked from the factory and afaik, there no way to unlock it easily.

          • Chaunticleer@lemmy.dbzer0.com
            5·
            12 hours ago

            That was my solution. You can freeze google services on your phone to stop the updates but then you have to choose between the functionality of many apps you got from the store and all the ones you did not.

            However Google has relented by allowing provisions for a sort of “dev mode” like you have on all android phones where you just have to do some esoteric bullshit to opt back in to installing from other sources. For now, anyway. You know how they are.