Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

xep@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Users stop watching on Youtube to go watch on Tiktok. I can’t see that as a win.

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  • xep@discuss.online ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Perhaps the lesser of the two evils, considering Google’s dominance. But yes, far from ideal.

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    • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Google’s dominance

      Is it? Try to ask <18y.o. if they even ever open Youtube.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  well google is enshittifying themselves with AI and propaganda push, so it will be soon.

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  • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and it’s not just google. basically every major social media platform is enshittifying.

    i hope that lots of people will realize that the dead internet theory is actually becoming true due to AI bots and move away from the internet in general.

    We need less internet, more regional human connections. It would be better if the novelty of the internet wears off and is just seen as yet another advertising machine.

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• phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Or if you use adblock and stream at 4k, google will lose money when you watch videos. Free content while fucking google over is a win win in my book.

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  • kilgore_trout@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s still a waste of energy, so if I were you I’d simply not watch the video.

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    • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nah, I still enjoy the content, and it wouldn’t make a grain of difference as far as global wasted energy goes.

      If you really are concerned about wasted energy though, you shouldn’t be on your computer/phone browsing lemmy.

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