And no doubt the web version will pop up a massive blocker requiring you to make an account to even browse.

That's a no from me, dog.

Device permissions? That's not the issue. I think people just lack software knowledge and should learn the difference between proprietary software and Libre software.

If people understood how to check the software license and determine if it's a free software license, that would cover almost everything they need to do to help us stop having this problem with picking the wrong software.

We need brainrot on Lemmy

How about we abandon ragebait shortform slop/garbage aggregators entirely

In my day, we listened to AM Talk Radio! 16 hours a day, to and from work! None of this prissy little short form phone slop, no sir. It was three hour long shifts of Rush Limbaugh, Don Imus, Doug "The Greaseman" Tracht, and Sean Hannity. I earned my hate honestly, by fiddling with a little dial on my walkman and getting five commercials about cigars and dick pills every eight minutes. I got to hear bad riff tracks about how Japan was taking over our economy produced on a AKAI S900 that had been dropped down a flight of stairs. I didn't know these people even had faces until Limbaugh showed up as a talking head for the NFL for a few months.

The very fucking idea that these stupid petulant spoiled woke lib fuck-around find-out kids are getting their news from a five minute long vertical visual display? OOOOOOOOoh it makes me SO MAD! I hate 'dem kids. I hate'm!!!

There's a FOSS tiktok equivalent?

FOSS is just too much of a hassle for most people, unfortunately.

Any non centralized platform would probably fall under the amount of users, unless they have some special funding

Also, some creators want revenue and shit… and decentralized platforms don’t allow creators to earn money

They follow what is advertised. Fediverse, by its nature, doesn't have money for this. There was a push for Mastodon, though.

You get to watch a couple of videos only without logging in. No search.

Yikes.

What's UpDog?