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[–] Ooops 10 points 2 months ago

Would be nice to also block Russians from Youtube so the comments can revert to normal again instead of being infested with armies of trolls... dreaming

[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] mecfs@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

im not american what do I care

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Good I hate youtube, please ban it in Europe and the US next. Maybe more people will switch to peertube. Actually just ban the whole Google data-mining repertoire.

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm old enough to remember trying to use books to repair things which was especially tough when you couldn't find the book for the actual thing itself. Maybe you could go to the library and find something close, but not the actual thing you were fixing half the time. It is worlds easier now to type the exact name of the thing I want to fix into YouTube and find multiple videos on troubleshooting and repairing that specific device.

There is almost so much free educational content on youtube including the amazing Crash Course series educating people essentially for free. I am learning a 5th language right now and got a lot of the initial basics covered for free there and have basically endless free content to work with there.

Most people have no idea what a 'peertube' even is and have zero incentive to switch to it even if they find out.

[–] ssm@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 month ago

It is worlds easier now to type the exact name of the thing I want to fix into YouTube and find multiple videos on troubleshooting and repairing that specific device.

And peertube could be even better if people used it

Most people have no idea what a β€˜peertube’ even is and have zero incentive to switch to it even if they find out.

Yes, it's a hard sell, so I suggest users upload their videos to both peertube and youtube, and promote peertube on their channels and provide incentives like early uploads to help popularize the platform, so it can be better than youtube some day.

[–] Sankta 1 points 1 month ago

so no more russian bots? jk they will just use vpns