Because they have AI voices and exciting forced captions that sparkle and bounce in the exact center of the video! Who wouldn’t want that?
Now I kind of want to make a parody of what would be a traditional educational video on YouTube in the style of shorts. Like annoyingly rushed, AI voice, and huge forced captions blocking everything. Making fun of kids today who have no attention span for ordinary videos. A difficult topic like programming or CAD software.
I just installed and tested out the app. I have been using Léon - The URL Cleaner for a while.
I “shared” your clearurls link to URLChecker as a quick test, and then hit the “Unshorten” button, even though I knew it wasn’t a short URL. This is what it resolved it to:
url=../../../1.26.1/specs/rules
Haha… Thanks?
In the end, it takes more taps to do what I want than Leon does. If I share a YouTube link, I have to press “Unshort” then “Apply” to remove useless parameters. Meanwhile, with Leon, it’s already done. As soon as you share to it, it presents the plain YouTube URL with a simpler UI where the buttons have words on them instead of just icons.
Compare:
URLChecker
Leon
To be fair, it appears to have fewer features. Leon can’t simply remove all parameters or check the URL status. URLChecker also had it’s own quick list of share targets in that central drop-down in addition to a traditional Share button.
I think I’ll keep both installed in case URLChecker does a better job with non-YouTube URLs.
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Even worse is when they edit their post to add “Never mind, figured it out.”
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I was the first person to post on the pluriverse in 2008.
Is it possible the heavy traffic is causing Lemmy to temporarily block this person and not actually crashing the instance?
Welcome to my block list. I guess I’m power tripping.
You can doom scroll without the current video looping, though.
Why do short videos have to loop automatically with no way to turn it off? Who the hell decided that was a good idea and why has every other app followed suit?
I especially hate the ones designed to loop because they think it’s “so clever”.
“Never play with liquid mercury
It’s really bad for your health and shit
That’s why you should…”
🤮
Ah, I did not know that. Must be a lot of mods that don’t know that either because I see foreign language communities all the time.
Isn’t that what the scaled sorting in v0.19 is supposed to fix?
The language settings do not work. Some hugely high percentage of comments and posts have an “undetermined” language because Lemmy doesn’t force you to choose a language when submitting something. And then there is federated content from programs that don’t even have a language setting.
If you block “undetermined”, you block almost all content, and then there’s no point in even being here.
What we might need is code to identify the language of a comment and assigning it automatically while allowing it to be changed if it makes a mistake. I imagine it would annoy multilingual people having to switch their configured language every time they make a comment, so just make it automatic by using a language model. That’s the kind of thing a language model would be really good at.
Until we have something like that, the language settings are useless.
I’m sorry, but I will continue to downvote exactly one post in every stupid anime community right before I block it. We don’t need a separate community for every single anime ever made clogging everyone’s feed with boring pictures of characters.
My single downvote in each community is helping to shape Lemmy as a whole, and I’m certain it’s very effective at doing so. It’s definitely not just a childish tantrum. No, sir!
Yeah, I think so. I downloaded the recommended app, connected to the recommended server, added a channel, tried to ask my question, and BAM! That was it.
If you had put spaces after your dashes, you would have made a proper bulleted list instead of a paragraph. Just FYI.
- Takes down accounts for mass reporting without checking the issue.
Here’s a critical feature: Matrix bans people using a VPN. Fuck that. I joined a channel for the first time, said “Hello”, and was instantly banned for “Spam”.
I have to use a VPN because I get my Internet from tethering my phone using EasyTether to make it look like phone data, and connecting to stuff like Windows Update would make it really obvious I’m doing so.
You can preface a ChatGPT session with instructions on what length and verbosity you want as replies. Tell it to roleplay or speak in short text message like replies. Or hell, speak in haikus. It’s pretty clever for an LLM.
And if someone’s writing code to make a bot, they can privately coach the LLM before they start forwarding any replies between the real person.
Parenting, personal finance, relationship advice, fashion advice are topics that aren’t very popular on Lemmy… due to the network effect.
No, no. It’s because we’re almost entirely basement-dwelling nerds who are alone, have no kids, no money, and only wear clothes to avoid the shame of other people seeing our naked bodies.
I’ve heard those “share IDs” (as I call them) are indeed tied to your account. My worry is that some day there will be a data breach and a mass doxxing of people who shared YouTube links, so I always remove them.
Léon - The URL Cleaner