I use Freetube instead of YouTube exactly because no login, no algorithm, no ads, no sponsored content. Just chronological actual content from channels I care about.
It really is a big difference.
That said I would only -consume- content ripped from YouTube. I have no account and no interest in publishing there.
The purpose of a system is what it does. If it spams multiple networks, that is its purpose.
Re:Digital Minimalism
by crabmusket on Saturday October 31, 2026 @07:04PM
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POSIWID is dumb, but also, why are you ignoring that it reads posts from multiple networks? Why isn't that its purpose?
> My primary goal in doing this was to support decentralized social media, and to continue to engage with X but in a way that distributes network effect rather than locking it in. But in my months of using Firefly, I found that it also has a different effect: I feel much better using it.
> I suspect the primary reason is that while Firefly allows you to tweet, and see other people's tweets, it is missing one central part of the X interface: The Algorithm™.
What he likes isn't being able to spam multiple networks, he likes the change in the content presented to him.