A video essay on what we give up in exchange for the convenience that social media and algorithms provide.

  • kalkulat@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    That’s 18 minutes I don’t need to spend learning a minutes worth. (He starts out complaining about the lost time he’s invested…)

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      2 days ago

      This is true of the overwhelming majority of YouTube videos I see submitted here. The information density is just abysmal compared to a page of text.

      • atrielienz@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        And that is why I don’t click on or watch YouTube videos from here. Either I’ve seen the video already (as is the case with a lot of gamers nexxus vids), or I am not willing to give the amount of time it takes to watch the video when I could read a distilled version of it in a minute or so. I don’t care about your greeting (hey, this is [channel] here, back with another video. Today we’ll be talking about [insert topic], but first …[mindless garbage]).

        I know that newer gems love video format and want it for all the things but I do not.