You also can’t dislike the slop, you can’t dislike ads, you can’t report misleading ads, nir comment that theyre trash. Its literally stationary slop.
Yes, we’ll get right on that! Who is paying for it again?
PipePipe has a way to filter out shorts.
≡ --> Settings --> Content Filter --> Filter Short Videos (turn to ON)
PipePipe is Boss. Buy them MFs a coffee! (Ko-Fi)
One day we will have a peer to peer video sharing platform… One day…
If only peertube existed…
I’ve used peertube. Not a lot of good stuff on there. And I guess that’s the problem with trying to vie against YouTube – you’ll always start at zero.
I’d contribute, but I don’t make internet videos.
Hey, just a hypothetical, what’s stopping me from making a peertube instance and just adding in a bunch of my favorite youtubers video collections there and letting like minded people watch them? Just the cost/data logistics?
There’s an ethical consideration in that those youtubers didn’t consent to their work being on peertube.
But other than that – like technically and in terms of Peertube rules – you might want to ask someone else. I don’t know the answer. Sorry.
Chicken and egg problem. I really wish that more youtubers at least trip loaded their videos on peertube. Peertube even has an option to automatically mirror a YouTube channel effortlessly.
You can contribute differently. Archive YouTube channels or re-upload memes or video-guides.
The two hurdles I see are viewership (current inertia has everyone browsing on YouTube) and monetization (people rely on ad money that comes from those watching 30sec of insurance slop).
There are weaknesses in YouTube, like algorithms forcing creators to reach the 10 minute mark, or unfair content ID detection, but we might need a good corporate player to invent something against them. And I do mean a company - content creation is a business for a lot of people, not just an open source project.
I’ve been using newpipe for a couple years now. But I guess that’s coming to an end soon
What, why?
Because of this https://keepandroidopen.org/en/
Oh, right. I thought YouTube did something, but… yes, the sadness that is Google.
I like shorts. I say this again and again: Curate your shorts by liking and subscribing. Press “don’t recommend this channel” for shit you don’t want to see.
Hone your algorithm. 👍
You don’t home the algorithm. It hones you. Finds what you engage with the most and exploits you. Every short form video site does this. It makes it addictive to you so you stay on it and see more ads.
It doesn’t care what you like. Only what keeps you on there. Even if it’s things you hate. And your probably thinking “oh lll just say I don’t like it”. They don’t care. Corporations don’t care. They just want to maximize the profit from you.
- I only see stuff I like on YouTube shorts these days, so honing the algorithm has worked for me, so that’s incorrect. I’ve done it.
- It doesn’t “care” what I like, but I’ve told it what I like and it gives me stuff I like. Mission accomplished.
- You don’t get ads on YouTube shorts. Not on your TV, not in the app. At least I don’t. 🤷♂️
