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The act of interacting on YouTube used to be an entirely public matter. You could say anything you want as long as it didn't break any laws and trust it to be thrown into the public. Nowadays you comment on something, and there's a 75% chance of you being shadowbanned without knowing why, with the video owner being the main filter of what people see, forcing feuds to take place not in comments but in back and forth videos, since this means everyone's content has become their own little echo chamber, which means a stable argument is impossible, and combined with the fact YouTube is highly indifferent to even most of its most important rules broken, as well as combined with the fact popularity is based entirely on luck now, means anyone can use it as a platform to slander any person or topic completely unchallenged if they're the one who gets popular while the challenger cannot. And because YouTube once had a reputation for being the best platform for information, most people who grew up with this reputation who have never had to deal with its modern incarnation don't think to question anything. It's a literal den of snakes now, you got misinformation trolls coming out its wazoo. What ways have you used to circumvent the issue?

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[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

What ways have you used to bypass YouTube's echo chamber format?

Easy, I barely use YouTube at all anymore.

When I do use it, it's for specific videos. I never use it for content discovery.

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Yeah, I have switched quite a bit of my viewing over to Nebula. Bunch of the creators I like are over there since Youtube punishes high-effort content.

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Care to share your opinion/experience? I'm thinking about it

[-] BombOmOm@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Nebula focuses mostly on 7-50min, edited content. That is to say, not shorts and no let's plays. They have some solid originals, like the Battle of Britain series, however most of their content is also available on youtube. What most creators do is offer the ad free version on Nebula (ie no in-video ad-reads), and Nebula doesn't add ads themselves. Many creators will also create supplemental videos that aren't available elsewhere that go into more detail on one part of the prior story; something LowSpecGamer does quite a bit.

On the negative side, because the content is all edited (ie, not things like lets play) and there are less creators overall, you can't sit down and watch Nebula all day every day like you can youtube. Also, as mentioned earlier, much of the content is also available on youtube.

I personally like it and happy to support creators I like. The extra content is solid and it's nice creators are rewarded for making quality content.

this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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