Notices by 𝕘𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕟 (goran@oour.org)

Is it just me, or do others find YouTube repulsive these days?

I’m an internet old, grew up flipping through a very narrow selection of TV channels while looking for cartoons. When the internet, and later YT, allowed access to multifold amounts of random content, it was a pleasure wading through it and discovering some weird gem now and then.

Today YT seems like a cesspool of AI and rage engagement crap, with an occasional decent video in the mix.

@thanius @Shrigglepuss @lunarna I’m surprised nobody is addressing that market: please take my money and don’t turn me into a product.

A real solution like treating search engines as infrastructure and funding them via taxes so anybody has access without having their data/behavior harvested in exchange sound too much like socialism (public libraries) I guess.

Some of us want socialism. :(

@lunarna @thanius @Shrigglepuss I’ve been considering mojeek as my default after all the crap with DDG. Anything to worry there that I should be aware of, if anyone knows?

@Shrigglepuss @lunarna @thanius Yikes! Thanks.
Bullet dodged, both figuratively and probably literally.