Right now the user count Lemmys is comparatively tiny when held up against reddit - but the user count isn’t the thing that makes a social media site, it’s the engagement

So even if you’re used to lurking, try to get a little more active! Post memes, vote on posts, talk in the comments, whatever!

If people come here and see activity, content, and discussions, they’re more likely to stay and contribute their own - if they come and see a ghost town, they’ll just go back to reddit

  • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Google might start messing up the alternate frontend Invidious too (the exception The video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one. (WEB client) (VideoNotAvailableException) started appearing, which is still fixable though), which is a nice option to view yt without the clutter, especially when not logged in.

    In case you know the media player mpv, you can pass yt links directly into it and view just the video through it. You need to have yt-dlp installed for this. Then you can type

    $ mpv 'https://youtube.com/watch?v=....'

    This is more for Linux though, idk how it is for Windows

    • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      YT has been playing games with 3rd party viewers forever. the number of times 3rd party viewers have had to rush out new builds to circumvent the latest YT breakage is disheartening.

      At some point google will permanently wall off its garden to trap its users. what then, my friend?

      • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Then one must either resort to the official youtube frontend (which is still bearable as long as content blockers work normally, I could not imagine getting spammed with ads) or using other ways of watching like PeerTube. Circumvention should always be possible in a way though as long as Google doesn’t employ DRM on YouTube videos.

        • qprimed@lemmy.mlEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          but, in a better world, circumvention should never be needed. with peertube, lemmy, mastodon, et al. there is no concept of circumvention - there is nothing to circumvent. thats the end goal here, at least for me (and I hope for others as well)

          • vepro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Yeah, and in the Open Source nature of the fediverse applications alternate frontends will also be able to thrive. (though the main fediverse app frontends come less cluttered / cleaner out of the box)