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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