I don’t have solution for videos, but I am moving back to podcasts and rss as much as possible. I want to be ready when they finally forbbid watching without ads.

But I must admit content creators are not helping, content for most of them become just job to be done with. I am aware it is not their fault and that yt is pushing them, but content is geting worse.

It is hard to compete with platform that is loosing so much money. They will also buy anyone who tries. Maybe if we start being satisfied with one resolution and quality, but that will never happen.

Not only that, I am certain Google will put as much money as needed into it not to allow any competing platform.

YT is not profitable, but gives them data, power and control.

Yeah, and he is not pretending. He is taking publicly about price for him to show up in music video. I can imagine this is probably similar, someone payed him to use his name on dog products. He got some money and doesn’t care.

I always wondered why they haven’t been doing it from the start, seams like it is not as simple as I imagine.

People will take it, there is no other option and G is working hard not to allow another video platform.

Problem is ads they are playing are awful and loud. We will make way to silent them and black them out, it is not hard.

Bigger problem is content they are pushing is getting bad and is pushing creators into burnout. And I don’t want to see videos companies are creating, but want individual contributions.

I remember, at that time, I was more worried about how admins in my local ISP spend their time than some far away company.

I think he did suggest droid-ify with fdroid repo: https://github.com/Droid-ify/client

Looks good, I will try it out. You have it in F-droid :)

While title is click bite, they do say right at the beginning:

*Right now, it is pulling through only because of Microsoft’s $10 billion funding *

Pretty hard to miss, and than they go to explain their point, which might be wrong, but still stands. 700k i only one model, there are others and making new ones and running the company. It is easy over 1B a year without making profit. Still not significant since people will pour money into it even after those 10B.

I was thinking it is better if you find it by yourself, because that way you can better asses truthfulness, but I do know it is not easy to find so here are some examples, just listen to few videos on Niger situation:

https://youtube.com/@TheNewAfricaChannel

https://youtube.com/@africaninsider

https://youtube.com/@zackmwekassaenglishchannel2081

Some videos with opinions: https://youtu.be/3IIAB05hh-U

https://youtu.be/5OE3I04A70E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47GUA9SiiC0

Those are channels that I never noticed some affiliation beside toward whole Africa.

Also do read the comments bellow videos.

Take a look at individual african channels on youtube. Don’t listen to only white people what is happening in africa.

Calling Mohamed Bazoum “democratically elected” is quite a streach of definition of the word “democracy”.

It us not much different situation for Bola Ahmed Tinubu who is now threatening to attac Niger and the reason is gas pipeline that goes toward EU through Niger.

Inform yourself from different sides, we have internet now it is pre 90s era anymore.

I just checked and my account on lemmy is 3 years old, I was waiting for all of you. At moments lemmy looked like it will take of by it self, but last few months was pretty quiet. I hope this is the push this community needs to succeed.

Reddit got too big for my taste since digg joined in, I don’t think this will kill it ( they have the data how many people is using it outiside official apps), but let’s make space out of it.