It seems that everything turned into scams, aggressive self marketing and just click bait irrelevant content. I liked finance videos, but every creator sounds like “the world will end soon” or “my secret method to make 1 million per week day trading stocks/forex/crypto.”
Content aimed at culture (movies/series) also behave the same way, throwing a bit of politics into the mix. Always the same incendiary click bait title spewing a bunch of nonsense that has nothing the story, setting characters or other topics relevant to the piece.
Is there anything that can be saved on that platform? It has gotten so bad that I’m start to think that Tiktok and Twitter both have better content than YouTube. At least in those platforms you can find a random dude writing an essay in a series of 20 tweets on why an increase of mantis is related to the global surge of ballpoint pen prices.
I know this will get hate, but I still enjoy LTT.
A lot of people complain about the clickbait headlines or that he’s hamming it up for the camera. He does get a lot of hate.
I personally find him entertaining and I like most of the other presenters. I don’t mind the clickbait headlines because they’re all clickbait, it’s like a running joke itself.
Aw, that’s unfortunate. Clickbait by itself shouldn’t ruin a creator for someone. Gotta look for the positives, not the negatives.
Yeah they’ve openly said that they wish they didn’t have to do the clickbaiting, but that the effect it has on their total views/revenue in undeniable. It’s kinda just how YouTube is at this point, adapt or die
I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that’s where Linux falls down.
The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he’s coming from as a non-dev, it’s jarring and confusing but as a developer that’s the last thing you’d want. His complaint about GitHub’s interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that’s so intrinsic to Linux, it’s hard to get away from yet it’s something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.
Don’t get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says “just go here and copy/paste these commands”, not just because it’s unintuitive but because it’s also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it’s much more common in Linux.
Spoken like an average cancel culture enjoyer; especially since this post hasn’t had any activity in like, what, a week? Digging up an old comment to do something like this is something people enjoy for some reason, and I don’t get it. Look for the positives, not the negatives, for God’s sake. There’s too much negativity in this world (which probably won’t change, but I can hope).
Can you elaborate? I see comments like this that say “thing/person bad” but never back it up with a reason.
He used to produce decent content, until he just started doing everything stupid and wrong. For instance build a HUGE storage server with FreeNAS (now TrueNAS), then failed to back it up, lost tons of Tbs of data, and failed to do typical things with that type of storage system.
That’s one of the failures I can think of off hand, I know there’s a few others but it’s essentially all IT no no’s, things that make IT pro’s cringe. It can 100% amusing content for non IT pro users but yea.
I don’t watch a ton of YouTube anymore, but when I do it’s usually the likes of techtubers and gaming creators that incorporate humor with a few “I create dumb stuff for the internet” type channels mixed in.
I’ll list few of my favorite channels, with Piped links of course :)
DankPods, Alpharad, Failboat, I did a thing, Bobby Duke Arts, maxmoefoePokemon, Michael Reeves
Probably missed a few but that’s most of them.
Generally, I tend to focus on smaller creators, their qualities are usually better.
The channels I watched include Nitro Rad (gaming), MattKC (tech), and Modern Vintage Gamer (retro console/gaming).
Less now that I have this wonderful extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
But unfortunately there’s some creators you can’t find elsewhere yet.
Nick Johnson who does amazing (and kind of depressing) videos showing you all around the cities and towns in America: https://www.youtube.com/@NickJohnson
AItrepreneur for AI tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/@Aitrepreneur
Ordinary Things for hilarious deep dives: https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinaryThings
Climate Town for hilarious deep dives into climate change: https://www.youtube.com/@ClimateTown
It’s a youtube alternative, the best I’ve used so far. Still need a lot more creators to make the switch or at least mirror, but it’s growing slowly.
Odysee is a blockchain-based media platform. We host all kinds of media such as images, articles, PDFs, audio files, etc., but we’re best known for hosting videos.
Odysee seeks to recapture the spirit of the 2000s internet. Rather than favoring corporate content such as late night talk shows, network television, and TV news, Odysee is a place for everyone, including independent creators.
Referring to Odysee as “blockchain-based” isn’t just sloganeering. All content on Odysee is hosted on the LBRY network, which Odysee then pulls from. For those interested in blockchain, this is really cool. For those who don’t know a thing about blockchain, that’s totally fine because Odysee requires zero blockchain knowledge to use.
It’s like YouTube but the only good content is about Linux. The rest is deplatformed racists.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LBRY#Content_and_users
Well that’s not great…
I like McNally on youtube. He’s like The Lock Picking Lawyer with the agression setting turned up to 11.
