Passionate about cooking, traveling, nature photography, animals, technology and privacy.
Addicted to coffee and spicy food.
It’s all FOSS. Whoever gets doubts about the devs can check the source or have it checked by experts. They sell out or die? Switch to other frontends or forks. I’d never trust any dev blindly, but if I can choose between these ones and Google… well.
Switched to piped/invidious. There are even a few good apps like Libretube or Freetube. No need to waste time with scripts and stuff.
Good thing I’m running my LLMs locally on a heavily encrypted PC with no network capabilities at all. Only way to not have my data siphoned, be it by hackers or big tech.
This. The more popular it gets, the more people come, the more trolls and idiots are beneath them, the more toxic everything gets…
Advertisements and fake news will also skyrocket once the user bases are big enough to become adequate breeding grounds for them.
Makes sense. Best way to push even more product placements on us.
When I still used YouTube it recommended me crap I could hardly have cared less about or even things I actually disliked.
To me, Youtube was always synonymous for faulty algorithms.
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Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Elite back in the mid-90s. Jagged Alliance 2 and Fallout 2 a few years later got me finally hooked.
I don’t think so. It’s just a little more inconvenient.
For example: I don’t need to see posts from friends to know how their day was. Instead, I just call them or meet them for a coffee and ask about their day.
The old fashioned ways still work well.
We can block you. Which I’ll be doing now.
Your life that boring for you to come up with the time and patience for posting this?
Jeez, you fit well into reddit.
I guess then we have to agree to disagree.