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I quit youtube, became addicted to freetube
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YouTube isn’t social media? I always counted it as such.
All seriousness, not trolling you, but how old are you?
I’ve found the 30ish and under crowd refer to basically everything as social media at this point. Like everything where anybody can talk to others is “social media”.
Message boards /forums are just that,video sites are just that, FB, Twitter/X, IG type stuff is all social media.
I’ve asked the life out of that one in real life to people the last couple years and it seems pretty consistent that if you’re younger it’s all social media, and those who have been around before that term existed don’t lump it all in together like that.
What makes YouTube social media for me is the following
Older people ignore the comment sections in their factorization. I think this can be fair but also isn’t necessarily when we consider things like livestreams on twitch and youtube, where you will have actual communities form on the platform itself, who communicate and form friendships and relationships. Unlike message boards and forums typically have, there is a “main character” if you will, but I don’t think that makes it asocial.
There’s also the participatory, communicative environment people feel even as smaller creators. It’s not like film and TV where you need an entire network and brand backing you, and as such it’s pretty democratized to be a social outlet for people.
I have always counted it as such too, but I don’t post on there.
Yep, this me.
Big Clive, Ben Krasnow, Mike’s Electric Stuff, Folding Ideas, Practical Engineering, Nurd Rage, Alpha Phoenix, Ben Eater, Diode Gone Wild, EEVBlog, Huygens Optics, Jeri Ellsworth, Woodgears, every god damned DefCon talk.
The ONLY saving grace of YouTube is that you can fucking learn anything on any subject if you can find the right channel.
I disabled shorts and went through my front page and said to not show me stupid addictive content and then also took two weeks off. I also used libredirect addon on Firefox to redirect all YouTube links to inviduos so that if a link somewhere took me there I didn’t get sucked right back.
I’ve set my frontpage to be my subscriptions. Firefox addon. No shorts, no bs.
How do you disable shorts!?!? I’ve been meaning to do this. They’re so annoying.
wear pants
It’s one of the available Revanced patches, you’ll need to download the latest supported YouTube version from APK mirror and patch it with Revanced manager (the right version will be shown as “Suggested”)
there you’ll choose the “Hide Shorts component” patch
Thanks! I’ve been meaning to try out Revanced. Surely this will make me. :)
Go for it, you won’t regret it!
I also would like to gain the power of banishment.
I have the same issue, and that’s affecting my productivity a lot. I’ve even disabled history from my entire Google account, so that I’m not suggested videos. But that’s still not working. Fuck you Google, you’re like that enabler friend who will force his alcoholic friend to drink even if he’s suffering from gangrene.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://piped.video/watch?v=zUC6g1C8L_I&list=WL&index=2
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.