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Do you still watch YouTube? Who do you follow? (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 1 year ago by DoisBigo@lemmy.eco.br to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to bet your 80 year old gran isn't playing AAA games and streaming on her Linux PC.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

No she's not, but neither are all the other average users. The average user does almost everything in a browser these days. I worked for an ISP as an installer for 8 years... I've been in ~10, 000 homes. Maybe 1 in 30 people use their computer for serious gaming. Most gamers are console gamers.

But with that said, gaming on Linux has come a long way in the last couple years. Most games that don't work are the ones with anti-cheat that install what is essentially a rootkit on your computer. Streaming has never been a problem with OBS.

[–] Kushan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you're missing the point I'm getting at. The Linux challenge was specifically a gaming challenge, or at least gaming was a significant part of the challenge and while yes, gaming has indeed come a long way in recent years (and the stream deck is helping drive that further), it still has as long way to go.

You need to separate the "what's doable" fun "what works out of the box", it's the latter that can fall down for most people and the second you have to open as terminal, you've lost the audience that we're talking about.

[–] somedaysoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I didn't get into to the specifics of what was wrong with that video, but there was a lot wrong with it and some of it was framing. When a video annoys me every couple minutes because it's inaccurate then I'm obviously going to be put off by it. And that was the case for that video.