• Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    Maybe people could read more?

    Nobody needs this endless “content” slop.

    For real people need to get a grip if they can’t survive without it. They’re addicted.

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      5 hours ago

      Hmm yes I’ll just read about how cool two bullets hitting each other in slowmotion looks. Much better experience than watching it /s

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      21 hours ago

      Horse shit.

      Reading vs TV was a tired debate in the eighties. YouTube is no different than tv. Hell, in some ways, because it isn’t all controlled by oligarchs entirely, I would argue that it’s easier to find good things on YouTube than it ever was on broadcast or cable tv.

      Also, ablist much? How about the blind and dyslexic? Are they fucked just because you don’t like that format?

      Yeah, fuck YouTube as a platform, and fuck Google/alphabet, but don’t pretend to be the arbiter of entertainment.

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        21 hours ago

        How about the blind and dyslexic

        Last I checked braille exists and so do tools for dyslexic readers. There are literally braille terminals for the blind. Hell, the first time I saw one was in the film Sneakers in 1992.

        It’s actually very easily argued that the push to touch-screen and video everything is what is actually ableist and making braille be used far less because companies are more worried about what’s cheap than what is actually useful.

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            20 hours ago

            Yeah, that’s some projection. You weren’t being disingenuous to pretend that videos are more helpful to the blind than braille? Get a grip.

            We’re talking about a company that is happily trampling over the rights of individuals right now, you don’t think the disabled won’t be next on their chopping block?

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      22 hours ago

      Maybe people could read more?

      Hell yeah I love audiobooks /s

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      22 hours ago

      totally agree with reading more. text is easy to consume, easy to store, (somewhat) easy to verify (if sources are provided), and it keeps (if using dead trees for storage). ever since the pandemic i started reading more and must say i really like it

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        21 hours ago

        Some content lends itself well to written format. Lots of content does not.

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          20 hours ago

          absolutely agree. i just wanted to point out that not everything has to be a video

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          What do you think keeps something deep being in the form of audio? I get that videos aren’t great for research but audio can just be written word spoken so that people that can’t read or don’t enjoy reading can experience it. I read more than pretty much anyone that I know in my age range and I don’t see myself as superior because of it and doing some comes across as frankly pomous and self important.