Alb087Jul 28, 2024

Replacing Youtube is really hard!

https://lemmy.ml/post/18484764

Replacing Youtube is really hard! - Lemmy

I thought odysee is a better alternative for youtube and offers much more privacy. But it’s not. So disappointed. Feeling hard to quit youtube because of other platforms doesn’t have much better or quality contents expecially no instance of peertube is truly usable. 🤥

Show threadasapJul 28, 2024
I would love if someone could answer this with quick examples. What exactly are people watching on YouTube that can’t be replaced elsewhere? If I’m needing informational content I will generally seek it out in textual format, as it’s painful to sit through a video on that sort of thing. And if it’s entertainment, there are many other options.
Show threadcheeseenjoyerJul 28, 2024
I recently watched a 10-hour video essay on Harry Potter. I can only find stuff like that on YouTube.
Show threadGripplerJul 28, 2024
OK…but why would you do that!? Your life surely would be no worse without that. I get being a fan and all that, I grew up with HP,. I’ve read the books several times and seems the movies several times. HP was a huge part of my upbringing and I bought the books at release. But I just don’t get watching a 10h video essay on it, much less while supporting YT.
Show threadJoshuaFalken

Criticizing what someone gets enjoyment from to make an argument isn’t a stance that’ll hold up. Undoubtedly you have something in your life that you find enjoyable which others don’t.

Beauty isn’t the only thing in the eye of the beholder.

Jul 28, 2024 at 2:47pmWeb
Show threadGripplerJul 28, 2024
If you actually read my comment, you’d see I’m not criticising anything at all. I’m stating I don’t understand it, especially when it supports YT, but that’s also it.
Show threadJoshuaFalkenJul 28, 2024

I did read your comment a few times, looking for a different tone, to see a meaning perhaps I misunderstood, but I can’t find it.

For what it’s worth, Harry Potter isn’t relevant to any of this besides being used as the example. They could have said Star Wars, pottery, landscaping, or astrology. Their point was moreso, ‘I watch long form content that isn’t found anywhere but on YouTube, and Harry Potter is an example of this content.’

You go on to mention the content in every line of your initial comment, and mentioned the platform only once. They enjoy a thing, you don’t understand how they can enjoy that thing.

Whether intentional or not, I can’t see what you’ve written as anything but a critique.

For posterity, your comment:

> OK…but why would you do that!? Your life surely would be no worse without that. I get being a fan and all that, I grew up with HP,. I’ve read the books several times and seen the movies several times. HP was a huge part of my upbringing and I bought the books at release. But I just don’t get watching a 10h video essay on it, much less while supporting YT.

My interpretation, if you care to see it:

Your first line comes off as yelling at the person for their choice of content. The second line, by my reading, is saying their entertainment adds no value to their life. The next two attempt to couch the first two by conflating your patronage of the same source material to an in depth analysis of it. Then the first half of your conclusion line specifically states you don’t understand how they reap enjoyment of watching their chosen content, only to be reinforced by your use of “much less”, which means the first bit of the sentence is what you are primarily focused on.