serpineslair

joined 1 year ago
[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Another thing to add to the google graveyard.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sounds pretty fun, might give it a try someday.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

Yes, I agree. Not only would the proposed community be full of baseless claims etc. But also it may deter potential mods.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 11 points 4 months ago

No problem :) . Thank YOU for posting. This can cause an interesting discussion.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago (12 children)

Not really sure what this will achieve in the long run. Sure, some mods will up their game after being shamed... but would this not just encourage toxic behaviour? People may start shaming mods just because they may slightly disagree with them as opposed to because they are bad mods. Instead of a few bad eggs, we may end up with a chaotic community of people blasting and publicly shaming anyone with differing opinions. Is this the best way to go about this? Obviously I may be exaggerating slightly, but this is just to get across a point to consider. I know you have touched on this issue already, but another thing to consider is the potential bias of mods of this community as well. This is an interesting idea and I would also like to hear other people's opinions on the matter.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I couldn't either... I ended up using dd, though it's probably not the best way by a long shot.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

You do you I guess. If you scroll down far enough on the android app home screen it will start displaying recommended content in the typical short-form layout. I believe you can also click on a small rectangle on some playlists and it will do a similar thing.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Humane Labs?

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 62 points 5 months ago (6 children)

The UI that gets progressively worse with each update, ruining what was perfectly fine before. The attempts to create the audio focused equivalent of TikTok.

[–] serpineslair@lemmy.world 26 points 6 months ago (3 children)

I don't know, personally I've never liked the idea behind that app. It seems like a massive privacy risk. I know if it is open source there is less of a risk, but I still don't like the idea of people being encouraged to constantly post themselves and their surroundings.

 

In order to get recommendations on your homepage you need to enable your Youtube history in order for videos to be "tailored for you". This is complete BS, as recommendations were perfectly fine before, and I have never had history enabled. This is just a stunt to get people to give their personal data to google. Now I know google has always been bad but this is what really gave me the wake up call, the final straw if you will.

This has prompted me to look for an alternative, specifically an open source alternative. Unfortunately, there are no suitable candidates to my knowledge. However, there is a small, open source alternative which is federated (similarly to Lemmy) called PeerTube. I believe with enough users it could potentially become a viable alternative. Please consider reading more about it. I have not joined yet but I will research more tomorrow. Thanks for hearing me out, just wanted to spread awareness.

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