Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by andyfleming on Sunday June 13, 2021 @01:33PM
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The landscape has changed, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t high quality content available anymore. For example, a lot of content is on YouTube. That may or may not be someone’s preferred medium to consume, but there’s definitely good and niche content.
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I think a lot of expert content is now mostly video content. A lot of the time I'm finding I'm just typing things into youtube rather than google if I'm after some kind of expertise.
Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by hyperpallium2 on Monday June 14, 2021 @11:54AM
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The information tends to be of lower quality (despite the love). For example, I wanted to know why left and right bicycle pedals are threaded differently. Three youtubers gave reasons that I could tell didn't quite make sense. But Sheldon Brown's website explained it ("precession"). https://www.sheldonbrown.com/pedals.html
Looks like he added this detail later - it's easier to increase the quality of information like this with text, than with video.
Some people add VO later (jarring); Khan Academy re-does videos (breaking references between, confusingly). Most youtubers don't do either.
Videos often have paid product placement, unacknowledged. It's very effective promotion, because it feels grass-roots.
Re:I Miss the Old Internet (2019)
by gentleman11 on Sunday June 13, 2021 @04:33PM
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It’s weird that YouTube and Google is now synonymous with “the internet.”