• @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      strange, they have allowed it ont he channel for quite a while, alot of the videos were mostly directed at transpeople in the form of anti-woke videos. like that channel where it had 20 magats arguing vs 1 “liberal”.

      right wing drives viewers to grifters, and those have ads which benefits youtube.

  • Wren
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    They don’t want proof that what’s going to be happening soon, was ever mortally objectionable.

  • @ImmersiveMatthew@sh.itjust.works
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    022 days ago

    That is why centralized platforms, especially powerful ones, are sitting ducks waiting to become even more corrupt. Why more people are not leaving centralized services is a crime against humanity as it is clear that supporting theme means society suffers.

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      The ‘not leaving centralized services’ thing isn’t really helped when there’s basically no other viable alternatives, like is the case with YT. PeerTube exists, sure, but it’s a content desert, sadly.

      Now, if PeerTube had more content to choose from…

      Really though, Reddit, Meta, Twitter, and Discord all have viable decentralized alternatives in the form of Lemmy, Pixelfed, Mastodon (Mastodon serving as an alternative for both Facebook and Twitter), and Matrix respectively, why can’t PeerTube serve as a truly viable decentralized alternative for YT?

        • @AkashicOwl@lemmy.world
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          It’s harder than that IMO. There are plenty alternatives to many bad things but people just don’t care. Just like Linux, for the average person that’s got enough shit to deal with, they don’t wanna add what they perceive like a difficulty and remove comfort by having to start from scratch with less options. Also, being cut from the mainstream trends, and the general social thing.

          Not speaking for me as I’ve been mostly degoogling and demicrosofting, even tho I still partly feeling like that for YouTube that’s been a very valuable part of my life (yes. I do read and go outside. But please stop suggesting that to people in such threads, that’s missing the point), and that I couldn’t let go off yet. Alternatives rn are either totally devoid of content (at least, the one I like), or paid (didn’t gave a shot to Nebula, I’ll browse it and see, but it might be hard to beat both my favorite creators I spent years curating, and the fact that you can find anything on any obscure thing)

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost
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    More proof Rainbow Capitalism was a lie/ad campaign to take more money from queers.

    I wish I could rub this in the face of every cishet who said Rainbow Capitalism was actual progress.

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        Was yours? Commenting online isn’t exactly fighting the good fight. Did you do anything to help shore up and defend anything.

        These companies face legal action from the government that was elected. A government elected who won power by spreading their shitty ideology everywhere.

        • @darthelmet@lemmy.world
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          I’m not talking about personal actions. I personally believe in equality and I wish I could do more about that even if there are all sorts of personal reasons that’s difficult for me.

          Corporations don’t believe anything. They’re just profit optimizing machines. They were doing rainbow capitalism when they thought it would be more profitable and now that they think the opposite is more profitable, they’ll do that. It’s as simple as that and hoping corporations would be allies in a fight for equality was always based on a misunderstanding about power.

          It’s not like corporations don’t have power that can resist government action. Look at how effectively they’ve evaded taxes and regulations. The big international ones can threaten to take their ball and leave if they don’t like a country’s policies. And that’s when they don’t just bribe politicians to change them.

          The workers at those companies are people though. Labor organizing was always going to be necessary to build up power for change. Not saying it’s easy and I can’t fault someone for worrying about losing their job, but if resistance was going to happen anywhere that’s where it would be. Not in boardrooms or alone in a booth.

          But there’s the difference. It’s one thing to have convictions but not the means or courage to act on them. It’s another thing to have power, but lack convictions beyond whatever is currently convenient. The former could overcome those obstacles given the right circumstances. The latter never will.

    • @FriendBesto@lemmy.ml
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      They didn’t capitulate. They were mostly faking it all along, friend. It made for good profit at the time and to get good Blackrock or Vanguard investment money. This is why despite putting rainbows in X, or FB, or YT, or LinkedIn profiles in the USA or in some Western countries, no company ever did that in any profile outside the West. It was all for show… and money. If they actually believe it they would have done so across the board. Yet they didn’t. They were just hoping most people wouldn’t notice. Many did. There was a meme RE: this floating around from years ago, too.

    • The Menemen!
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      They didn’t capitulate. They never fought. They just did what was the best shot at earning money and gaining ground at the time.

      Don’t ever expect moral based behavior in capitalism or geopolitics.

    • @Sizing2673@lemmy.world
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      This is what’s fucking shitty about this

      Every company and every politician and every person who bends over so willingly IS THE PROBLEM

      It’s like they announce their regime and these idiots roll out the red carpets immediately ready be the first company to suck the government off

      If they all stood their ground, it would buy more time

    • @samus12345@lemm.ee
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      It’s too hard to change anything, but only if it’s progressive policies. Fascist policies can be implemented immediately.

      • @TheEntity@lemmy.world
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        It’s too hard to change anything if one believes in laws, rules and the general idea of a fair justice. They don’t have this limitation.

    • @ameancow@lemmy.world
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      Welcome to how the world has always worked and always will. There’s gin to help wash the black pill down.

    • LucasWaffyWaf
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      It’s like Roko’s Basilisk playing out in real time, except instead of building a malignant computer out of fear it’s accelerating a fascist takeover.

    • @Chocobofangirl@lemmy.world
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      021 days ago

      It used to say gender expression and identity. If it doesn’t, that’s a deliberate decision that could cause enforcement calls like ‘well that’s not your REAL gender so this isn’t harassment’.

      • @fxdave@lemmy.ml
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        I mean… It’s already over-specified compared to others: “sex, gender or sexual orientation”. It’d be equally right to criticize religion for why don’t they write “belief, spiritualism, religion”, and to include identity, and expression.

        They should just write “sex stuff”, and everyone is happy.

  • @mindaika@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    021 days ago

    What about this idea:

    Stop staring at internet videos all day and go get a life. Learn Spanish, take up woodworking, volunteer at your local school, walk around the block… do something useful instead of staring at Internet videos, or worse, making internet videos for people to stare at

    • Ada
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      021 days ago

      Hey. I’m learning Spanish, I’m a volunteer, and I run and cycle on the regular!

      Somehow, that doesn’t stop you sounding like a bigot though…

    • @Soleos@lemmy.world
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      This is an unhelpful and condescending comment. It dismisses the meaningful activities people engage in online as “not life”: self expression, creating art and community, working, socializing, enjoying entertainment, and learning new things. It proposes a false dichotomy wherein not-online is utopic with universally accessible activities and, especially, an absence of the very same people who make online spaces toxic hellholes. They are present in “real spaces” too. These are not mutually exclusive things. You are likely to find that pro-social activists online are often try to be pro-social activists in person as well.

      That being said, I agree that people get terminally online and that balancing digital and physical lives are important. Managing attention and mental health are important, especially when content about important and meaningful topics turn into viral and incessant feeds that are geared to overwhelm human brains that weren’t evolved to handle such constant cognitive/emotional stress.

      Take care out there folks.

  • Realitätsverlust
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    I would appreciate it if we could just get rid of this dumbass “hate speech” rule.

  • @PerfectDark@lemmy.world
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    And people judged me for watching YouTube with uBlock Origin, or via NewPipe for eons.

    Look who’s laughing now.

    • @Trihilis@ani.social
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      Good lord, the amount of idiots that white knighted me for using uBlock.

      “WOULD U WORK FOR FREEEEE???”

      Like fuck off no I wouldn’t. I also dont buy up every other company I see, turn it to shit and then try to force a political agenda through it, and guess who IS doing that using billions of dollars? Yep, Google.

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      youtube is too infested with ads, to make me disable ublock origin for my favorite channels. in anycase most of the channels become greedy pos overtime anyways. outside of pet one/animals/stem ones, ones that are just gossip or reaction or like mr beasts videos are no good.

    • @floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      YouTube on mobile is intolerable these days. NewPipe is the way for Android, though Google is in a constant battle to disable it.

  • nature_man [he/him]
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    Reposting my comment another post relating to this situation

    I mean this is just them making official how they’ve been acting for 2 years minimum, as much as google and youtube want to act progressive and inclusive, people still get demonetized for talking about lgbtq or women’s issues, unless they are harassing them, in which case the video will stay up no matter how many of youtube’s rules it breaks. For example, trans NB game critic Stephanie Sterling had multiple harassment videos against them (they listed pronouns as they/them last I checked, please correct if changed) that are still up right now, several years after upload, despite those videos exclusively attacking them for being trans/non-binary, which breaks youtube’s TOS

    Companies are not your friend.

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        Wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’ve had this exact thing happen to me several times. Sometimes they’ve even had slurs in their profile image or banner too.

      • lemonaz
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        Just don’t make a video criticizing the nazi using snippets of the nazi’s videos, because that’s when you risk getting taken down for hate speech.

        Smaller channels have this happen to them on a regular basis when they criticize bigger channels like, say, Matt Walsh. In that case, it’s because YT likes the bigger channel better for giving more ad revenue, but they still know that it’s hate speech so they apply their own rule selectively… on people criticizing the hate speech. They only ban chuds after they become irrelevant, and that’s only to save face — for example, when they banned Stefan Molyneux he was hardly popular anymore, so there was no financial loss in banning him, and they could score brownie points about how progressive they are.

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    “Don’t Be Evil”

    (I know this hasn’t been the Google motto in years – when it stopped was one of the biggest corporate red flags)

  • @spicehoarder@lemm.ee
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    I hated Google far before it was cool. I would feel vindicated if it weren’t so damn overdue. They don’t even contribute meaningfully to society. And I mean that about EVERYTHING

    Gmail is lame, their search engine sucks, chrome wastes resources, their ads platform ruined the internet, Golang fundamentally sucks, the emulation layer of android is so fucking wasteful, Material Design ruined digital creativity, etc.

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      What’s wrong with Golang? Agrees on all other points, and perhaps this one as well

    • RobotsLeftHand
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      Google search feels like it has stopped being the magic it was. Now whenever I search for something I might not find it underneath all the stuff on sale. For the first time in I don’t know how many years I’ve been finding myself using something else like Duck Duck Go.

        • @13igTyme@lemmy.world
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          I used to use Google shopping to find certain items and compare websites. Now the entire left side that used to be a filter list is replaced. When you click a “filter” option it just adds text to the search bar. Then it will include an essay about why these are your options for something and recommend top brands, but then just list everything.

      • @AnjunaSouls@lemmy.world
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        Yep, that’s intentional. They stopped prioritizing user experience and started prioritizing ad revenue instead a while ago

      • @blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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        and yet somehow google made it worse. Not only are there more ads than ever before, but now it’s also a panopticon.