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the darkness of night

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~brokenatlas wrote:

Youtube is the only one I wish I could do without, but can't unfortunately. Need to fix the car, fix the washing machine, grow tomatoes, repair your phone? YouTube. It's a necessary evil.

I'm a sysadmin by trade and thank goodness 90% of the job related internet searches I make, return results I need to read. Though most of those are StackExchange/StackOverflow/Reddit (Reddit has become a cesspool in its own right.)

I miss the days all interactions on the internet were like this. Small communities, simple interfaces, where you just enjoy the people that are there. I'm am so glad I found this place!

~tskaalgard wrote:

I regret that I still use YouTube as well. I've tried to use Invidious exclusively but the thing about those privacy-friendly frontends is that the megacorp plays whack-a-mole with them and you never know if an instance will work or not.

~abacushex wrote (thread):

Well said and thank you :)

I can't quit YT either. There is PBS SpaceTime, and Numberphile, and VSauce. But as the old(?) adage goes, never read the comments. I find it easy to keep YT from being 'social'. And if the marketing engines or the NSA profiles me for liking physics and math and obscure topics... well, they're not wrong...