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We don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...
Discovery sucks, though.
it's getting better
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There are thousands of bluecheck AI bots that just copy-paste/regurgitate or just make up stupid content and post it continuously to get engagement views and money. It is really worse than before.
Why are you following them?
"Popular" tweets (of which these bot accounts often fall into, because they're propped up by bot responses and engagement farming) are pushed into your feed even if you're not following (or engaging) with them.
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#294this is what youtube and reddit was like during 2011. it was calm, serene, accepting, warm, human. it was just this perfect mixture of user friendliness, people knowing how to type and use computers and just before the internet was taken seriously by anyone and corrupted by money. before social media became a serious political consideration. i remember very clearly that even at the time it felt too good to be true. t…
I miss those days too, but my recollection of Youtube is a little different. Lots of piracy for example.
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#296This reminds me of something I've been thinking a lot about. which i think is big techs greatest failure: interoperability I first thought of this when seeing someone take a picture of their computer screen. There is just so much friction in moving data. I should be able to take anything off any screen and move the source material to any other screen on any device or cloud with a simple 1-click process. Including the…
It’s the tragedy of product lock-in and closed systems.
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I love astronaut.io! Open it in an incognito window so that your YouTube watch history doesn't get too crazy.
Or maybe its a good way to reset it
If I visit Youtube without being logged in, all I see is junk.
Why would a regular user of YouTube ever want to reset their watch history?
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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.
We don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...
Mastodon is a walled garden
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It's no different of inadvertently watching your neighbor naked through her window because you happened to look at the wrong time. You know it's wrong but you won't look elsewhere...
I think that is neither a normal situation to be in nor a normal thing to do.
Please define normality, in the meantime I'm giving a try :
Normal men have balls, balls make man attracted to women -> normal men get their attention grabbed by inadvertently looking at pretty naked woman.