Comments on: shedding sunday — youtube/2023/08/21/shedding-sunday-youtube/various and sundry notionsTue, 22 Aug 2023 15:08:20 +0000hourly1http://wordpress.com/By: Marc Beebe/2023/08/21/shedding-sunday-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-1797Tue, 22 Aug 2023 15:08:20 +0000/?p=11377#comment-1797“I know what you are against, but what are you for?” – Emile de Becque (Rossano Brazzi) in South Pacific (1958). That describes what politics have become in both our countries: always “the other guy is no good” and never a word about why they are better. This is why voters turn away from polls – and Youtube. Constant exposure to the endless ad hominem attacks degrades the soul.

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]]>By: wjlonien/2023/08/21/shedding-sunday-youtube/comment-page-1/#comment-1796Tue, 22 Aug 2023 08:15:28 +0000/?p=11377#comment-1796Ah, YT and its https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias – terrible indeed. But try to watch anything on that platform without being logged in, and things get really insane. If that reflects mankind, or its current state of mind, then I’m left pretty pessimistic.
I’m just dipping my first toe into peertube, but what I’ve found so far was refreshingly positive…
But maybe I should stop wasting my time, and concentrate on becoming more productive again myself, like on Wikiloops. Flickr being to expensive now that I’m a retiree, and with my little “own” (rented) server space, I had to look for the non-centric alternatives like Mastodon instead of going with those big guys…

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