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I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don't realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don't know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won't find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Reading requires attention. YouTube videos you can put on in the background during work or other activities.
I can't imagine why I'd want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.
I listen to music at work.
hmm, while I'm doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn't occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
depends on the job: but I think audiobooks and podcasts are generally better for jobs where you don't need your full attention on the job.
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I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
post literate society gets closer everyday
If my client base is any indication it's already here. We are thus as a society, to use the vernacular, most likely cooked.
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
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Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I'm not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Often things like that are so they don't have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!
Yeah. That's just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don't have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don't have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
Apparently the general population has an understanding of written/spoken language at about the 6th grade level...
What if the recent push back into feudalism works too well and we get the "dark ages" all over again.... lol...
Well hey, that's improved over 40 years ago. USA Today famously wrote to a 4th grade reading level.
But yeah, second dark ages is for real happening all around us.
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And if it's an X link I take a little detour to block the poster as well.
I copy the url and replace the domain part with xcancel.com
Just as annoying as the fact i have to watch a fucking 15 minute youtube garbage video with obnoxious musc just to get a tutorial that could have been written into 3 sentences.
Dude never would I ever have dreamed I'd yearn for the days of 2 minute videos with notepad being used to communicate but here we are.
Lemmy plugin idea: when someone posts a YouTube link, the server copies the video to peertube instead.
Or maybe we could build that into the client to save server resources.
YouTube is not the problem here. Some people don't want to listen to some idiot talking. Where is the text, god damn it. I sometimes use AI to turn a video into text because I hate watching videos for information so much.
I hate when the information I'm trying to get is trapped in a video. It's not often that I can't find text alternatives, but it happens on occasion. Being trapped watching a video whose purpose is only partly to deliver information (the other part to game the algo and appease sponsors), when I could have found the info I needed in 30 seconds if it was text -- that's my idea of torture.
One of the very few legitimately game-changing aspects of AI in my life is video summaries.
I'd love a bot for that
There used to be a bot that would link to some YouTube frontend whenever a link got posted, but it almost never worked and even when it did it got downvoted constantly
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.
But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.
YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that's long solved.
I prefer to stick to anything that doesn't now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Just change YouTube to yewtu.be
That was my first thought, but I think the idea is that a well thought and written article can be a better medium for certain materials than a video on where someone just narrates something and shows slightly unrelated royalty free videos.
could use the ask button for the citations the video is using and read those, or sometimes they're linked in the description
Or find a repost.
Yeah dude, you should absolutely believe this thing I'm saying. I even have a source. [two hour video from some youtuber]
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he'll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his "journalism" is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn't make you right on other things.
Hear me out, if you start it from the cover up where the investor and his son's plane explode and the evidence vanishes you can watch the rest to the song "bodies hit the floor". Murders end around the same time the first reports of Epstein surfaced in 94. CIA is tied in.
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