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[–] [email protected] 144 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (4 children)

I'm done with Windows and YouTube videos that should have been a written post.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Amen! Can we please have more written posts on the internet again? It’s much easier to search and follow along.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Nobody has the attention span to read them - as proven by the declining buy-in on YouTube videos longer than a TikTok reel - let alone write them. Written media will continue to rapidly decline.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yes indeed, Sir. Your generation was the only Enlightened one, everyone younger than you is just a reel-addicted monkey incapable of reading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Not sure why you went on the defence, my generation is the reel addicted monkeys that stopped learning anything and instead started spouting off “knowledge” from doomscrolling. We’re the ones that are killing printed media, and we’re the ones either airing or producing worse and worse garbage on TV as well.

We’re killing our own attention span year by year and none of us want to be uncomfortable for a second by admitting it’s a problem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I feel like a I'm an old dinosaur yelling at the clouds because I can't stand most video content. There's a time and place for it but an 8 paragraph op-ed would suffice for content like this.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

I mean yes, but there's way better exposure from online videos. Things like this 100% should have an accompanying post though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

For me it’s the bloody “video essay” format. Hyper narrated, spoken straight to the camera. Waste of traffic, waste of storage, waste of attention. People think the argument carries more weight, or is just more persuasive, when someone is speaking at you with some vaguely related visual in the background. But really a written piece could be pulled apart so much more quickly.

Unfortunately OpenAI’s Whisper doesn’t do written transcriptions fast enough on my workstation yet for me to use it full time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I just jumped ship completely (last was dealing with scanner & printer) with windows, where can I find replacements for the 5 people I "follow" on youtube (ukraine war reports & beginner chess)? I mean is there even an alternative?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Mastodon for non-traditional journalism and traditional journalism supplemented with blogs and newsletters is what I go with.