I hate basically all youtube links on Lemmy, it seems like this is “reading” social media, not “watching” social media.
I’ve just started downvoting anything that looks like it’s promoting a YouTube channel. I don’t want a five or ten minute video communicating something I can read in thirty seconds.
Okay so I’m not insane
I don’t want a five or ten minute video communicating something I can read in thirty seconds.
There’s video oriented communities, just like on reddit.
Otherwise, yeah, exactly. The whole reason I enjoyed the reddit communities was reading not watching or listening.
Agreed.
And don’t forget to upvote and favourite this comment. It really helps me make more comments just like this one.
I partially disagree. It depends on *why* they sent the link.
If it’s totally out of nowhere, I agree; if someone asks a question and their channel/video answer the question? Feel free to advertise yourself.
Whew, boy, that escalated quickly 🤣
OP was speedrunning Lemmy
What does that mean? Their post is still showing here? Kind of completely new to this platform. It’s so intriguing and alive. I don’t think I’m going to miss reddit one bit.
They’ve been banned from interacting in the future, which is a separate thing from their posts & comments being deleted. They’re banned from their own instance, too:
Ohhh! I see. Much obligated. Thx for letting me know.
What app is that
A web browser.
My favorite app.
Lmao
Wonder how that went down with OP never even having posted or commented on their home instance.
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There’s some bot that links to piped, but i’d prefer people stop using youtube as a source for information / shilling their channel
piped often doesnt work for me… not sure why
It takes forever to load. Did you let your tea go cold before giving up?
Wait it takes forever for you? Like the piped app? Mine has been instant for the last 2 years. Like straight up faster than the Youtube offical app
Everytime I used Piped I would deal with buffering lasting an entire year, or the video just outright wouldn’t play (very common on kavin.rocks)
Invidious doesn’t have this problem but it doesn’t support Sponsorblock and I’m not a big fan of its UI
Maybe I’ll try again, could have been a bad day, but my experience was bad enough I could not justify considering it as a viable alternative.
I thought it was unresponsive until I put my phone down to make some tea, came back and it just then started to play.
I mean with how many upvotes your comment has, I think it means something is different between my experiences and other people’s. I’m just not sure what the cause of the difference is.
Yeah I just tried another one, it took 21 seconds to begin playing the video from when I pressed the play button.
Because Privacy isn’t 1 or 0 situation. It is granular thing you may think using YouTube crosses the line but others might not agree.
We as a community can choose what crosses the line for this community.
Personally I am fine with YouTube links, there is usually a bot posting a more private link down below if you want. It makes it easy to pick one of the other it isn’t that big of a deal.
More than posting their own channels or doing it on an anti-privacy website, I am annoyed by the medium itself. Even if it’s a topic of interest, videos can become really tedious depending on the author with no practical way to get around it, plus very little accessibility; it’s always more convenient in text.
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Well I guess I can offer a dissenting opinion on this one. YouTube video links are fine on Lemmy? I like watching a short video or two each day?
Yes, YouTube sucks for privacy. So I don’t have an account and use Firefox Focus to be anonymous. I do wish there were better alternatives to YouTube.
I don’t like ads and that includes people advertising a channel. But I haven’t personally seen this happen much on Lemmy. Maybe not all. I guess I don’t see why it needs to be banned.
Anyone else seeing things this way? Or am I missing something?
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I’ve thought about it more. I think I was indeed missing something. Is the complaint referring to all the posts that contain nothing but a YouTube link?
If that’s the case, I guess it’s a valid complaint. Doesn’t really bother me though. I just scroll on by the posts that don’t interest me
Somewhat private way to watch YouTube: Piped. I believe the piped bot comments under everything with a YouTube link with an alternative link anyway. Just use that.
Yes! That’s why I did a YouTube series about this very issue on my channel, go here and smash that subscribe link and find me on patreon too!
I was considering blocking all posts containing youtube links. No-one wants some opionated arse-monger broadcasting to them in bed.
Videos can* provide better privacy explanations (ex: animating asymmetric key exchange) The videos that get posted on here, well…
How about banning video essays?
Its not the advertising that annoys me. Its the links to YouTube with very little context
Agreed - I just had to block the user that’s been loading up the place with his YT links but that cleaned up my feed quite nicely. Suggest a ban for that one too (didn’t want to name anyone but should be painfully obvious by looking at recent activity).
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