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…is actually an understatement. What they’re actually doing is engaging in the equivalent of blood libel and trying to incite a pogrom.

thanks, i didn’t have sufficient vocabulary to describe before. But I mean the Tiktok creator was they were talking about in the video was Dylan Mulvaney, whose big transgression in the eyes of these people was getting sent a can of Bud Light from Bud Light officially that had her face on it. She was being sent tons of death threats and, iirc, it started to overflow into her real life where she was being harassed irl and she became afraid to leave her home for a while, which is what the video mainly focused on. It just blew my mind that someone could have so little empathy as to suggest she deserved to be treated that way (and potentially worse if she hadn’t taken steps to protect herself) over something so small.

and as for what to do, i agree with you generally. it’s just that when i navigated to Veritasium’s most recent video on Odysee and saw the homophobia in the comments (which, btw, they must be obsessed with gay people cuz the video is totally unrelated to the subject?) i didn’t feel completely right not mentioning how many nazis there seem to be around on these platforms in case it puts anyone else off as much as it puts me off. Louis Rossman made a video fairly recently where he talked a bit about PeerTube and Odysee and he said something like, “I keep seeing people in my comments talk about hating Google and Youtube and wanting to move to another platform, but when I recommend PeerTube or Odysee they say there’s not enough content on them, or they don’t like the people on them: well you should pick one.” he went on - “right now these are essentially the only alternatives to Youtube and if you want a platform that is more respectful of consumers, viewers, and their privacy and rights in general, they’re basically your only options and you may have to just put up with the downsides for now.” Essentially going on to argue that more content creators will start posting on them when they see them as worth posting on, which would be when they have substantial enough userbases, and the prevalence of moderate and mainstream views would push away the extremists as has sometimes happened on other platforms, and that’s generally how I lean right now too. Those also may not have been his exact words, it’s been a little bit since I watched his video.

I would love if a leftist instance was created on PeerTube, heck I’d be happy with a moderate instance, but I have struggled so far to find one that seems what I at least would describe as well moderated.

yep, sorry i did mean Odysee. I’m glad some creators you follow are on it. i follow Veritasium too, very cool that he’s on there!

edit: a big issue for me when it comes to peertube and odysee is that in my experience it has been way easier to stumble on conspiracy theories and far right weirdos on them than it is even on youtube. for example, a few of the comments on the most recent Veritasium video on Odysee contain homophobia. a while ago i watched a video from the Majority Report with Sam Seder on Odysee and the only comment on the video was someone saying a popular trans Tiktok creator deserved the abuse and negative attention she was getting by implying that all lgbtq+ people are p*dophiles, which is a completely fucked and cruel thing to say. idk i’m usually pretty hesitant to use Odysee or Peertube or recommend them to most people because of that stuff. ideally they’d become more mainstream so that the edge cases are less noticeable, i just don’t know how likely that is to happen any time soon because i think people are more likely to stick with what’s familiar and what has established platforms. but maybe this thread isn’t the most relevant place to ramble about this, i don’t want to derail into political stuff.

there’s peertube and odyssey but idk how viable either of them are long term. peertube at least is decentralized, not sure if odyssey is too or not

i know Louis Rossmann also posts on Odyssey

pockettube looks great, thanks for the recommendation!

i have it set to only like videos from channels im subscribed to, no issues so far personally. i manually liked most of the videos from channels im subscribed to before i discovered the extension, and i spend so much time on youtube that it became useful to me to automate the process. i wouldn’t be subscribed to them if i didnt like the content they make, so it’s usually fine for me to use youtube like this. i dont normally dislike videos, but when i do watch a video i dont like enough to go out of my way to dislike it, i can still manually dislike it. the extension does not lock the like button

positive interaction means the content creator will know people like the content and thus may be more motivated to make more of it, and for channels with much fewer subscribers (like in the hundreds or under 100) positive interaction can really mean a lot to them, especially for projects they spent a lot of time on and that they care a lot about

plus if the algorithm ever works right, liking more videos gives it more info to work with about my tastes and it should be able to recommend me videos more relevant to me and my tastes. if. if it ever works right lol, but i spend most of my time by far on youtube watching videos from channels I’m already subscribed to.

In addition to some of the ones listed in OP, I use

• YouTube Auto Like - automatically likes videos you open them (optionally only when you’re subscribed to the channel). If you’re on a Chromium browser, Google removed this extension from their web store so you can’t install it from there anymore. But you can install it manually if you want by downloading it from the Github repo here.
  
  I also use the following userscripts:

• Return Youtube Dislike - Does the same thing as the Return Youtube Dislike extension in the OP

• Youtube Shorts Redirect - redirects Youtube Shorts to a full watch page, so you can watch them like a regular video.

• Resize YT To Window Size - resizes the video player so that it fills in the entire dimensions of the browser window and moves video players to the top of the page so you can scroll down to see comments, recommend videos, etc.

• YouTube CPU Tamer by AnimationFrame - reduces Youtube’s CPU usage during video playback. I don’t really understand the technical aspects but it’s all explained in the description of the userscript. This script IS NOT compatible with SponsorBlock!
  
  Stuff I’m looking for (if anyone has any recommendations):

• Remove duplicate videos from a playlist

• display playlists in a grid layout instead of a list layout

• block youtube channels i don’t like

edit: fixed a formatting mistake

is it possible for multiple people to use one youtube premium subscription other than the family plan? we checked the family plan but there’s no way we can justify paying for it, far too expensive for us considering all our other expenses

edit: sorry replied to the wrong person

genuine question, how much does that really matter when it comes to performance? in my personal experience, on my system, edge does feel faster than chrome and most other browsers. but also, it’s not really a big enough difference for me for it to be a valid reason to use it over other browsers. like realistically i dont normally register these tiny fractions of seconds and milliseconds unless im deliberately payig attention for some reason. on the other hand, on my computer (and my bf’s computer (he runs Opera GX as his default browser)) at least, Opera GX is by far and extremely noticeably the best browser i have ever used in terms of performance, and it also uses the same engine as Edge and Chrome. i dont use Opera GX daily and i almost never recommend it to people but if i want to run some kind of browser based game or heavy interactive multimedia or website, or if i want to load something as quickly as possible, it’s basically the only realistic option on my system. before Opera GX, the closest thing that ever compared was Maxthon Nitro which was also based on Chromium. but Maxthon was maybe even less privacy friendly than Chrome lol. anyway, i can easily get 60+ fps in Opera GX in those situations where other browsers make me feel like im playing on the cheap Dells and eMachines i grew up with: lucky to get 10fps but still loafing pages in well under a second. i assumed this was because, although these browsers all run the same underlying open source technologies, each company has made their own proprietary changes to it in order to tweak certain things. in the case of Edge, better albeit forced integration with Windows, in the case of Opera, noticeably better performance. idk if Microsoft made changes that improved performance compared to Chrome on purpose, but that has still been my personal experience. on the other end of the spectrum, Vivaldi, even if i like it more than them, is often noticeably much slower than any of these browsers (often taking over a second to load big pages) and it’s also based on Chromium.

in terms of performance, on my computer, Firefox seems to be usually more or less identical to Chrome. not hating on it, i love firefox and it’s usually the first browser i recommend to ppl (when it’s not the first browser i recommend, that’s usually only because the person I’m talking to is looking for some kind of very specific or even niche feature that imo some other browser can do better than Firefox), but i dont notice a difference on my computer between it and chrome when it comes to performance. but im also not someone who cares that much about loading times, like i said these differences are often within milliseconds and i just don’t normally even notice unless im trying extra hard to pay attention, and im normally not. Opera GX and Vivaldi are outliers only because of how dramatic the differences are for me.

heck ya! i mostly only got the space ones cuz they were pink and purple lol i have loved my crocs they have never failed me and if they were to somehow break or something i would absolutely buy a pokemon pair that sounds awesome

my crocs have an awesome space design and i got them almost for free

🙂 😡

my first thought too lol. you wouldnt think so based on the levels of corruption in government

i think that’s Calckey, another microblogging software like Mastodon with an arguably prettier interface