Still, as Reddit is strong-arming its way across, maybe worth signaling to people there that the fediverse may be used without an account, so long as there's even one instance that implements logged-out view as the protocol allows it?

I don't have access to my account any longer, possibly VPN ban, though I never tried to recover it so I can only guess why mine is lost, else I'd post myself.

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[–] dsilverz@catodon.rocks 7 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

No, just no. Just stay off reddit lmao, not trying to be harsh or whatever but it’s a very simple answer.

I second that!

It's a similar situation with Youtube. People keep complaining about the enshittification, yet they keep giving their audience to the Google platform. People could argue "Oh, nah, I use Invidious/yt-dlp/Grayjay/etc, I don't give Youtube my clicks" and this is a very naive take, because in the end of the day Indivious/yt-dlp/etc still rely on Youtube, and these peple are relying on content maintained by Youtube.

I myself have been boycotting Youtube for two years and counting, and I never looked back.

Yes, Youtube and Reddit have gazillions of content. Yes, we're often unable to find said content anywhere else. Yes, life can become more hard if we refrain from said content. But while we keep seeking their content (even, and especially, through circumvented manners), they will keep enshittifying because they know they have what the complaining people are ultimately seeking and they know people are seeking it so badly. Once we finally stop, maybe, just maybe, situation would reverse and Youtube and Reddit will be the ones seeking us so badly.

!fediverse@lemmy.world

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 1 points 19 minutes ago

The only thing I use YouTube for (and I can't believe people use it for anything other than) is tutorials. Like I need to replace the window actuator in my car and I can look it up how to do it and there's a video. I can't believe people watch you tube like a streaming service. It's kind of mind-blowing to me that people watch as much as they do. Like literally the only thing I use it for is tutorials.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (1 children)

those people are the worst, i see them complaining about youtube on the YT subreddit, and they go on defending it when you point out the pervasiveness of rightwing content, and people like mr beast getting views. i was saying which is it, do you like youtube or you dont. and no i wont be logging in to youtube just to curate my feed, google wants this so they sell this part of your data.

[–] mangobanana@discuss.online 1 points 18 minutes ago

I didn't even know who Mr beast was until last year That's how much I don't watch YouTube