has anyone ever reached a point where you just can't look at youtube/twitter/etc for more than five minutes without being overwhelmed by the midwittery of it all and it just doesn't go away ever again
>>721177Obviously you cant be the only one like that in the entire world. If you are, psychiatrists will study you, or something
>>721179obviously i'm talking specifically about people on this board that can't have more than a few dozen posters per day, you beautiful neurodivergette
I don't use those for anything more complex than pictures of anime girls these days. "Discourse" is worse than wasting time.
After being exposed to it for years on 4chan; mid-tier level midwittery on places like xitter or youtube aren't SHIT. You just have to learn to trudge through the garbage pit to find the diamonds.
>>721177Anon you are not supposed to eat whatever algorithm feeds you, curate your subsciptions/follows.
"midwit"??? Youtube when I'm not signed in is fucking terrifying, it's all profound retardation or nitwit.
>>721186this tbh even though reactoid slop sometimes does get through
>>721177this but with leftypol also
>>721201the midwittery of youtube that comes to mind is stuff like superficial decodings of fiction or summaries of history, "reviews" of media that are filled with clichés and say the same thing everyone else is saying, drama shit using artificially neutered language, etc.
basically stuff that isn't super factually wrong (or at all) but is also very flat and basic and incurious yet treats itself as informative or interesting enough to demand 20+ minutes of your time
>>721201Use an RSS reader and hide the suggestion panes then.
>>721204https://freetubeapp.io/https://inv.nadeko.netYou can configure them to have blank front page or only your subscriptions etc.
First can only wrap into youtube, the second functions as a proxy. If you already have a VPN I'd recc. you try both, they both have pros and cons.
Freetube also includes an ad-skipper, while with invidious you just install sponsorblock in your browser separately (same function)
for like an entire year i was using xitter through xcancel and nitter.poast and it was the best thing ever and i only ever stopped because an account i liked went private.
>>721237if you go with the freetube app, i suggest configuring mpv as the player, so it routes the video through yt-dlp, and not through some rate limited proxy instance
No, because I‘m not going on there to be mentally stimulated to begin with. I seek out the specific content I want and that‘s it
I block youtube recommendations, comments and the autofill search bar, my youtube experience is like a pre 2008 search engine, but for videos.
>>721256>What one may used to have considered worth staying for is already on bluesky or feditwitter is about following specific users so this isn't true. those who went to bsky are mostly really corny libs. most good artists, interesting gimmick accounts and people with actually funny posts and decent takes didn't move because bsky is just a much emptier site that screwed up its own launch. mastodon is better but it has even less people and they're all distributed across instances.
i feel like people who go "why do you still use twitter instead of <x>?" never actively used twitter to begin with or just used it to interact with people they know irl. which, fair enough, the pseudonymous part of twitter is mostly for people who are insane in an uncool way. but it doesn't have any real replacements.
>>721237>>721247based and thank you. i suppose looking around for public instances is still a good choice if you're not at home and you get le sign up message
>if you go with the freetube app, i suggest configuring mpv as the player, so it routes the video through yt-dlp, and not through some rate limited proxy instancehow's your recent experience with yt-dlp, does it require PO tokens to get around that unlogged block or is it futile?
<https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/14404looks interesting
>>721256what a hansome kitty
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>>721177yes. but what does that change? these platforms dont incentivize good work, just frequent and long form or frequent and short form slop.
it sucks. but it's what we have, for now
>>721177Yes but I dont use twitter only 4chan and this place. And its not midwittery its just pure 100% low I.Q behaviour.
>>721177Makes you wonder why algorithms offer you this midwit content.
youtube comments are genuine cancer
came across some guy that complained about people saying asians aren’t white people (mfw asians arent a race and brown asians exists. don’t let bro know about desis). some other guy in the comments of a video i watched about how to use the new playstation controller (that i dont have and just realized it isnt the main controller i got for the ps5) also complained that sony is ran by “le joooos!1!1!1!”. and last but not least, when watching a video criticism a movie called “vivo” created by sony 4 years ago, a cuban-american in the comments called cuba an “authoritarian dictatorship that doesn’t let its people leave or return back to its country”, even though im pretty sure the US blockading the country is one of the reasons why they do this???? correct me if i’m wrong on this part though
>>723713Actual midwit response lol congrats
I can't really stand YouTube because it's all just doomer posting now or 40+ minute video essay slop about the most trival things ever.
Twitter gets boring because most people there are to ragebait and get paid or full of bots/paid Indians to stir shit up.
I can't really stand Reddit because it's slowly morphing to a CNBC Boomer site for Millennials who are still stuck in their cringe early 2010s activist phase. Everything there is utterly reduced to lib identity politics. The "hobby" subreddits fucking suck
And TikTok I find myself using it a bit more because ironically enough I think it's closer to reality but the interest really dies down when I get TikToks of douchebags showing off their wealth or girls thrust trapping or "LE EPIC HOT TAKE" that only serves to stir up more division whether it's gender or race.
Imageboards have severely died down but I don't really have an interest to be really be on the internet as I used to.
>>723928It just makes me sad more than anything. Touch grass is stupid advice when the internet is IRL now but even if it was still completely segregated from real life I'd be sad because even if a lot of it was shit the internet used to be fun. Even into web 2.0, gamergate and early trump 1 there were still unique internet subcultures and a lot of websites for better or for worse. Pretty much every attempt to recreate what it was is barely active too, like you said imageboard traffic is down and 4chan feels like a parody of what it was even in the stormfag election tourist days. People blame LLMs and I think thats part of it but even without them it feels like we got on this path during covid and won't get off.
Maybe we'll one day have an internet that's fun again, but I doubt it. I feel bad for the kids born in the past 10-15 years or so. At least zoomers born in the early 00s got to be around for the last years of it even if the decline was starting by the time they got online. Idk what we even do at this point or if theres anything that can be done
>midwitif the proletariat is cringe and awful, that speaks to their lack of enculturation due to bourgeois dictatorship, rather than any essential qualities they lack
>>721212>superficial decodings of fiction or summaries of historyI found out about thisgenre of Wendigoon guys doing horror slop thats like:
<spooky atmospheric music: "This redditor disappeared after making a cryptic post, so scary"these fucking nerds somehow made true crime even more pathetic, feeding off the most historically insignificant nothingburger content, literally "this post is not able to be categorized into our algorithms, we must work to investigate and sort it so that our overlords don't have any tension or friction in their consumer marketplaces"
>>723928>TikTok I find myself using it a bit more because ironically enough I think it's closer to reality There's a reason why Zionist technocrats rushed to do bourgeois recuperation of it
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