When you play either of these videos it’s just a AI voice talking over someone just clicking around. The scripts are also so similar.
The internet is dying.
No, not dying. Evolving, adapting to new developments. It is our job to oppose the ones that are not in our interest. The only way we can do is reject these. Unfortunately YT is a lost battle b/c they do not allow downvoting or blocking. In the search results or related videos they are peddling the same AI shit, without people being able to block channels.
If anything, it is YouTube that is dying. No worries though, the Internet will provide something else in its place.
Why would you even search YouTube for that sort of thing? Videos are a terrible format for communicating informationally dense topics.
I like consuming videos, Maybe it’s the ADHD.
Often when I eat or in the background while I juggle doing 3/4 other things at the same time
I get that, but when looking for specific information I don’t have the patience to wait for some slowpoke babbling and going off on tangents. I want information, not fluff.
Eh, It’s nice to see someone showcase things in a video format. It’s sometimes hard to find the right blog and ones that aren’t opinionated.
I don’t JUST watch videos to learn things, I google, check Forums, ask AI, watch videos etc. and then try to form a picture based on all the info I have
“Versus” videos or articles in general seem to be especially susceptible to being awful garbage
well … what would you like to know?
Currently on Kubuntu and I love it, but keen to see if there’s a better KDE desktop out there.
Fedora seems great, but is it stable enough to also recommend to friends?
Fedora or OpenSuSE are what I’d suggest for kde (or just generally speaking).
Q: Is Fedora more stable than *buntu?
A: By magnitudes, yes
I’ve been running Fedora with KDE on both my Thinkpad and gaming desktop for like 6 months. I like it a lot.
It might not be my first choice to recommend to Linux-cautious friends, it stays pretty bleeding edge in terms of updates, which might occasionally cause a little chaos.
i love the two generic handsome white dudes, who the fuck sees that kind of guy and thinks “ah yes that’s the ideal source for computer advice” rather than “oh i’ve never seen those football teams before”
I personally think Mormon or they want to steal my organs and/or my credit card information. But I’ve got a list of problems and being trusting ain’t one, I blame CPS.
Yeah, if the person I’m watching isn’t a poorly dressed hobo vlogging himself strolling through the woods, it’s shit information.
There’s this amazing series of videos I found when looking for some notes and advice for working on my vintage Honda motorcycle. The dude was literally in a shed in the woods, and in between his moments of gearhead genius, he would tell amazing, random stories about his life and philosophies. It was just this guy hanging out in a big shed in the woods, working on old bikes. The videos were like an hour and a half of him just wrenching and dumping wisdom. They only had like 500-1000 views each and I was honestly flabbergasted that he didn’t gave some big cult fandom.
I gotta go find those and watch them again. Thanks for reminding me.
I think they are just going with the meta that people tend to click on videos that have faces on the thumbnail. They were just lazy on what face they put on there.
well yeah that’s kind of my point, i get putting faces on there but it kinda backfires when that face looks like they’d call you a nerd for even knowing that linux exists
Internet is not dying, it is being murdered
It is being sacrificed to the dying screams of capitalism, to squeeze one final drop of profit from its corpse.
Yeah this is a huge problem now. Ai generated bullshit has ruined YouTube and it was already ruined by too much garbage.
Both are wonderful. I still recommend Fedora to most new users, but I decided to test drive CachyOS almost year ago and then never went back. Cachy is so cozy.
It’s been going to shit for years, but it is almost incomprehensible how quickly it has fallen in the last 6-12 months. If I try to find any review/comparison in an attempt to be a somewhat informed consumer, and it’s just all slop.
We need a browser extension with a whitelist for accounts that are either verified, or created before 2022. If the extension gets popular and people start buying old accounts to post spam on, then it would also need a blacklist for confirmed spammers.
😮💨
I would pay for this.
Let’s hope places like Lemmy stay relevant, vivid and slop-proof.
I think it’s always going to be a migration from place to place. As people find genuine places to talk to each other industrialists will find a way to pollute and destroy it.
Imo, just try something out. Fedora has a live USB that you can use to try out drivers, look/feel, etc. See if it meets your needs.
CachyOS also has a live USB.
But I’d actually go a step further. Install both in a VM using their flagship DE. CachyOS’s installer actually comes with many different DEs and window managers, so you should be able to get the look and feel of many different setups there, too.
Can’t wait for YouTube to fuck up media hosting for everyone because the ai they’ve been pushing is flooding their servers.
Truly, who could have seen this coming?
on the bright side: maybe peertube will actually take off
Youtube is already pretty bad anyways. Adding LLM tools and similar, as a local saying goes, is just a fart to who already shat him/herself.
Short form videos are especially flooded with slop and AI voice summaries of movie plots and DIY hacks. Its depressing, but also I’d like to cut back on my mindless content watching and maybe this is the motivation I need.
Capitalism makes it worth it to setup an Agent and 50 new channels on YT that does nearly the same. It doesn’t matter how many people gets spammed as long as some views are amassed. It already happens in normal biz on all levels. All AI ‘slop’ is just Capitalist slop. Really, it’s only there to make money.
I find them annoying too, but unfortunately, AI accelerates the Capitalist enshittification we see everywhere…
I miss the days when making money from posting things on the Internet wasn’t really a (widespread) thing. In the earliest days of YouTube there was no partner program, everyone who uploaded anything there did so out of enthusiasm; if we still had that, maybe we’d have fewer videos overall, but no one would have a reason to post AI slop or other low-quality videos just for profit.
