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• DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do watch videos from YouTube because of its massive content, but I tend to use invidious or piped links - because I don’t want to provide YT any more traffic than they need.

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  • StijnVVL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Could you please explain what piped links do exactly? I see them here all the time but they rarely work for me. I’d like to understand

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    • DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I will try to do an ELI5.

      Piped is what is known as a “proxy”, or rather an interface to YouTube.

      There is a very popular piece of code called NewPipeExtractor, which is used to scrape data from the YouTube website.

      Piped utilizes NewPipeExtractor to set up an “intermediary”, a proxy website that looks and feels pretty much like YouTube.

      The good thing about watching videos through the Piped proxy site is that YouTube doesn’t get to know your IP address. Which is why it is very popular among privacy advocates.

      That is it in a nutshell. If interested, you will find more information in their GitHub page.

      github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

      Hope this helped.

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• DasRubberDuck@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use WhatsApp, because I have friends that won’t switch to Signal.

  Other than that: I quit Facebook years ago, was never really interested in Twitter and recently stopped using reddit and switched to lemmy.

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  • pavnilschanda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Virtually everyone in my country uses WhatsApp. I’m essentially living off-grid if I don’t use it.

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  • scottmeme@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I still use WhatsApp

    Sorry to break it to you but that’s still Facebook

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    • DasRubberDuck@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m aware of that, that’s why I would like to get rid if it. And “technically” it’s not Facebook but another “Meta”-product 😉

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• squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use YouTube because of the massive amount of content that’s on there. And Instagram because none of my irl friends are on the fediverse.

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• WheatleyInc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No long form video content platform better than YT yet, I’ll be switching as soon as someone can make something better.

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• infinitevalence@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Technically yes, but in very limited ways.

  I watch Youtube, but I do not post or comment. I am on Linkedin but I do not post, and infrequently comment. I am active on Discord, and will remain until they too get greedy and I have to abandon the product.

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• Raged_norm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  reddit because the boardgame discussion on here is dead, boardgamegeek doesn’t do well unless you’re looking at a specific game (and CasualUK is pretty decent)

  Facebook because that’s where the church tech discussion is and I can sell boadgames so fast on there on the main group for my country.

  Both sites main feeds are dead to me though, if Lemmy ever picks up sisgnificantly I can see me moving over full time

  Twitter/Instagram/Snapchat/LinkedIn have all never been used or deleted.

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• etchinghillside@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ditched Facebook a number of years ago.

  Never really clicked with Twitter, even with trying Mastodon it just seems difficult to view content in a format In familiar with.

  Looking through others comments I guess YouTube is considered here and is probably my most used.

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• sour@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  youtube for content finding

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• guyrocket@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I'm probably going to over-answer this as I think "out loud" but here goes anyway.
  I've never done FB because FB is evil. I did sign up once for just long enough to report some kid for being too young to be on FB but that is all I've ever done there. It is pretty tempting to sign up for reals, tho because it would be the best way to reconnect with some people I have lost touch with over the years.

  I did Reddit for a while, signed up during early COVID. I've been off Reddit for a while now and I do miss some of the smaller more niche communities. But overall, Reddit has changed recently for the worse. I'll still browse /all most days and the content has really gone downhill. Slo-mo car wreck in progress there, I think. Reddit can be fun, but reactions seem wildly random. I think that's due to there just being a whole fucking lot of ppl there so you never know who will respond to any given comment.

  I've been on kbin since leaving Reddit and I feel more at home here than on Reddit. More like being in a bar here as opposed to a huge stadium on Reddit. And I'm not in a rush to change that.

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• Aggravationstation@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a Facebook account as the organisers of the park run I do only make announcements through their Facebook page. I don’t use it for anything else. Other than that I use WhatsApp as pretty much everyone in my country uses it to communicate exclusively rather than SMS or regular phone calls due to a very savy scam by service providers. Most of them stopped WhatsApp counting towards data usage on their contracts for a few years and heavily advertised that fact. Then they stopped doing that. People had got used to using the WhatsApp features like group chats and video calls and most of them assume it still doesn’t affect their data usage which means people are burning through their mobile data faster due to always having it turned on just so they can receive messages.

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• small44@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I use facebook for friends, family, running and hip hop groups and also for following artists

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• Hunterr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No

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• Asudox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I only use Lemmy tbh. I don’t know why people my age use instagram, snapchat, etc.

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• HipPriest@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Still use Google search, but switched out Chrome for Firefox recently and it's working out well. I do still use their calendar, docs apps but I've never been a big one for YouTube. I do have some Google speakers though and use Maps all the time - so I guess out of big tech Google is the one I'm suckered into the most...

  Stopped using Facebook around 2016 and deleted my Twitter account a few years before that, basically when the novelty had long gone and it all seemed to be more toxic.

  In the UK around that time it was just everyone going on about Brexit on Facebook but even before then people weren't sharing stuff about themselves (with good reason) so it was just low effort memes). Use Facebook once in a blue moon to get in touch with really old friends

  Didn't miss either, although I recently signed up to Mastodon more just to see how the fediverse worked over there.

  Then Reddit - probably the social media I was most invested in just because it was so granular in it's There's A Sub For That ability to cater for virtually all interests. But the utter disdain they held for their own volunteers and the contempt they seem to hold virtually everyone in was a bit of a wake up call. I do go back and check on it but I'm finding that I check on it less. Fedi has less content so I am reading all those eBooks I should have been reading instead!

  My son is 7, I'm interested in how things are looking in 5 year's time when he's an early teen. He's already got bored of watching YouTube videos, tiktok isn't really a thing with us or anyone we know yet... time will tell I suppose. The main thing will be constant reminders that porn isn't real and cyber security lectures

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  • 3enhjz@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I remember my parents telling me id get something like a free drivers license if i didnt smoke before 18.

    My son is getting a ‘homebrew’ 3Ds & Switch, later Steam Deck II etc if he stays away from tiktok, roblox, youtube and the likes :)

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• benjhm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Some people hardly ever used big-tech social media (preferred web1.0, making own sites), now start in the fediverse as it gains critical mass. A few specific transition issues: Appreciated complex boolean search in tweetdeck (abandoned since payable), look forward to similar functionality in Mastodon 4.2beta. Dropped FB after CA-brexit scandal, but now live in francophone community where FB still dominates interactions. Our schools mandate kids to use google’s networks. Kids seeking better options for music videos.
  Wider question - most people on fediverse in europe or north america - how do we reach rest of the world ?

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• shortwavesurfer@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Moved totally to mastodon in 2019 but still had and used reddit until the protests. Since then i only use lemmy and mastodon and have no other social media accounts.

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  implying I ever did in the first place

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• Epicurus0319@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Now it’s pretty much just YouTube. And very occasionally instagram just because my friends use it (though I usually just text them)

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• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a Facebook account that I log in to to host a weekly video conference, and that’s that. I won’t ever go back to centralised corporate social media as my main social media

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• DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No

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• Nemo@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gotta have thefacebook for family and college friends.

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• krimsonbun@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I still use whatsapp for most family members and schoolmates, and Snapchat for one friend

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• blackstampede@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Other than watching a YouTube video every once in a while, no.

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