Totally agree. Video has really gotten out of hand.

Personally, I hate how so much instructional material (of any kind) is posted in the form of YouTube videos. The same information could be posted in a far more compact and succinct form as a combination of text and still images. I can read far faster than most of these video “instructors” are able to convey useful facts. Plus, with a text, I can skip forward or back, and re-read key sections easily, without having to use a damn seek bar.

Also, does it not occur to these video posters that, by posting everything to YouTube, you’re putting all of your eggs in the same basket? YouTube may use multiple huge datacenters around the world, but how much of that video data is actually backed up? If a given datacenter is destroyed by a disaster, it would take a significant chunk of YouTube content with it. I’d much rather have the same information (in text form) spread across multiple, unrelated websites scattered around the world.

Agree with all of that. Blue LEDs, especially, have gotten way out of hand, and manufacturers have got to tone it down.

If you run out of items to view on Lemmy, you can always go out and, like, engage with family, or hobbies, or grass-touching…

Lemmy is like every social medium since the dawn of time: a cross-section of humanity… the good, the bad, and the ugly.

When I was a kid, and we had a power outage, we made do with kerosene lanterns and board games.

How times change.

Truth.

Age 30?

Pfft. Amateur.

I want to know, what are “tweets” and “tweeting” going to be relabeled as?

I can just see conversations like:

“Dude, did you see the latest X from Eminem?” “Yeah, I re-X’d it to all my buds!”