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Post by hoseja »

LeoPanthera wrote: post #72
mastazi wrote: post #11

The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…

There's something magical when one location becomes the default for something. A site like this would be impossible if YouTube wasn't the place for videos. It's why I'm sad that we no longer have one obvious default for microblogging. It was such a rich source of thoughts. That's all gone now.

Oh you'll be back.

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Post by lenkite »

staplers wrote: post #187
briandear wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter still exists. Renamed. Same exact thing. You can create an account and post whatever random things you want. Some people might follow you. Some might not. If you see something that makes you sad, you can block the person who posted the sad thing.

It's a walled garden. Unless you are logged into an account it's basically a private network.

All social media have to be walled gardens or be free-prey for ravenous AI bots. Evolution at work.

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Post by aryonoco »

albert_e wrote: post #51
mastazi wrote: post #11

The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…

I just opened it in incognito in Chrome on Android noticed that the YouTube videos continue playing without interruption even when I switch to another tab or minimize chrome altogether and switch to another app. how can we harness this power to play our favorite audio tracks in background (without any ads to boot ... shhh don't tell Google) I also notice that the website triggers a browser warning when loading that i…

Many ways to do that on Android. NewPipe or its fork Tubular, Clipious, LibreTube, or host a local instance of Invidious or ViewTube and access them using the browser.

F-Droid and the ability to still run software outside of Google's walled garden is the last remaining reason preventing me from switching to iPhone. I've tried Yattee on iOS and it's okay on Apple TV but seriously doesn't come close to the power of Tubular on Android.

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Post by microtonal »

hmry wrote: post #188
briandear wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Twitter still exists. Renamed. Same exact thing. You can create an account and post whatever random things you want. Some people might follow you. Some might not. If you see something that makes you sad, you can block the person who posted the sad thing.

"no longer developer friendly" referring to them re-pricing their API to make aggregating data for fun monetarily infeasible.

Not just aggregating data for fun. It made third-party clients like Tweetbot impossible. Similar to non-old.reddit.com, the web interface has been crappy for a pretty long time, but was easily worked around by using better clients.

No more.

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Post by microtonal »

lenkite wrote: post #212
staplers wrote: post #187

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a walled garden. Unless you are logged into an account it's basically a private network.

All social media have to be walled gardens or be free-prey for ravenous AI bots. Evolution at work.

or be free-prey for ravenous AI bots

Have you recently been on X?

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

averageRoyalty wrote: post #93
adriand wrote: post #75

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He also said, "My heart just dropped". That's a curious thing to say.

I guess as in 'dropped a beat'. The news was so surprising his heart stopped momentarily.

It's the opposite, usually. "My heart dropped" is a sense of doom, foreboding, a realisation of oncoming cataclysm. Like 'as I saw the second plane come into view my heart dropped'.

Of course, people don't use language in a consistent way, and people will use terms thinking they mean e.g. their antonym.

It's probably a common initial reaction to learning of impending parenthood. Life will never be the same. Initially one might only see the looming challenge of the mountain to climb.

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Post by walthamstow »

briandear wrote: post #175
Wingy wrote: post #126

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I’m pretty sure they’re referring to Twitter.

Twitter still exists. Renamed. Same exact thing. You can create an account and post whatever random things you want. Some people might follow you. Some might not. If you see something that makes you sad, you can block the person who posted the sad thing.

Even blocking has changed!

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Post by mr90210 »

dools wrote: post #119

In about 2007 or so my brother and I used to find super obscure blogs with no comments, read them and then write detailed responses to the author and share it with our friends. We always kept it positive, and said encouraging things. Most of the time the posts had been written in the 90s or early 2000s. We just did it knowing that probably one or two people would get notified of a new comment and maybe feel happy tha…

I think I am going to start doing that =D.

I wonder what keywords or tricks I might use to find such blogs in the current days.

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Post by lolc »

doctorpangloss wrote: post #148
mprast wrote: post #112

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I was on tiktok in 2019/2020 and for a brief period it was just ordinary users messing around and posting whatever they felt like. No tiktok shop, very few ads or thinkpieces, nobody was trying to build an audience. A lot weirder and a lot more fun

The absolute freak show that is the TikTok top daily videos isn’t weird enough for you?

People doing a weird thing for clicks is not the shtick for me. People sharing their weird life, maybe.

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Post by HPsquared »

mastazi wrote: post #11

The website http://astronaut.io/ does a similar thing but for recent videos, and not just from iPhones. From the home page: > These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). At one point you might be at a school recital in Malaysia, and the next minute you a…

Feels like an Adam Curtis documentary.
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