this post was submitted on 20 Apr 2024
150 points (94.6% liked)

Asklemmy

43974 readers
2080 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Today in a Privacy community a post about YouTube. No word about privacy but all about which software or settings are needed to watch videos and the money needed to host videos. It made me wonder whether some of you can lead a meaningful life without YouTube. Or will a cold turkey bring the worst out of you ?

(page 3) 13 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Maybe yes, Maybe not.

Most of the youtubers I used to watch years ago have become full-time Twitch streamers and their channels now only serve for highlights. My currently watched content revolves mostly around memes of specific games (most of which may also be available in other platforms at the expense of subtitles).

At least for now I can say that I could live without Youtube as ~90% of my entertainment on the web currently comes from outside the platform.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

No, not really

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Probably one of the harder things that I could do. It's a replacement for TV so I could try and slot in TV but I think it would be frustrating to not have the copious amounts of content

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

TV is simply not there. Some YouTube channels are about a topic that's so niche that there's nothing similar on TV.

[โ€“] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Yes, will we do have Odysee and Rumble. But people say they're Alt-Right (whatever that means). So fuck it, I guess.

load more comments (3 replies)
load more comments
view more: โ€น prev next โ€บ