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  • is that it’s a video (and that long) when the information could have been more succintly and practically displayed in a text tutorial or a blog format. Basically “this could have been an e-mail”.

    Or it's a lot of information to digest and an "e-mail" or blog article would have been too long and visually-unappealing to properly convey the information. Videos have words, pictures, and sounds. Even if it was in article form, they just want it so that they can skim parts of it, and pretend to read it, while not digesting a damn thing. Why bother with actually reading anything when you can shove it in an AI summarizer and get the best possible summary that takes 5 seconds to read?

    Not to mention that way people avoid having to go to YT which is yet another cesspit community-wise.

    It entirely depends on the channels you watch. All of the comments I read on the channels I follow are fine. I don't know what other people are having a problem with, but maybe they shouldn't be following Mr. Beast or Logan Paul bullshit.

  • The problem is the lack of auto-hiding of comments like this. Normally, on a Reddit thread, this would be buried and shunted to a "click here to read the stupid ass bullshit that one idiot wrote and got downvoted into literal Hell" link.

    Please, give me that in Lemmy, instead of having to always look at the abysmal score at every comment.

  • On one hand it’s nice that Mastodon doesn’t have ads, and people usually don’t share bullshit, but does that logically result in attracting users who shit on someone for sharing a YouTube video, because sometimes other videos on YouTube are bad?

    I have lost count the amount of times I've shared a YT video on Lemmy, and people bitch about the fact that they have to spend 15-60 minutes watching it, or immediately ask for some TL;DR about it. Like, I'm curating content for you, sharing a video I liked among the other videos that you probably didn't like, and people just want to universally shit on the format because of that one bad experience from two years ago when they dared to go to the web site for 5 minutes.

    People love to shit on TikTok, but secretly, that's the length of content a majority of this audience wants, and it's dumb. If you don't want to devolve into a TikToker, then watch longer videos and don't bitch when somebody asks you to watch a video for 10 minutes. If you don't like it after a few minutes in, fine, go watch something else.

  • That seems less than ideal. And yet, here we are with it being way more popular than Mastodon.

    Were people really that damn confused over "which instance do I join"?

  • If you don’t have moderation, your social media will turn into a Nazi bar.

    Worse, it will immediately devolve into a CP haven. The dark web is dark for a reason.

  • I'm sure that line of thinking will go over great when you stay home during Election Day and Trump magically gets elected.

  • You'd be surprised.

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  • A Mastodon user stumbling upon one of these comments could easily assume that it is just another fully independent “toot” (Mastodon’s equivalent of tweet).

    Wait, back up... Mastodon calls these "toots"? So, everybody is posting farts?

  • That's the thing about automation and training models.

    First, they implement some sort of auto-reporting bot that requires a human to review them. In the beginning, it only about 50% accurate, but as they give it more and more examples of good and bad results through the human reviews, it moves to 80%, then 90%, then 99%, then 99.99% accuracy.

    After a while, the humans on the other end are so numb to the 9999 entries they have to mark as approved that they can barely tell what's a rejection themselves, and the moderation team is asking itself just what this human review is actually doing. If it's 99.99% accurate, why not let the bot decide?

    Then, the model moves on from auto-reporting to auto-moderation.

  • but is concerned about hosting fees for serving images to millions of people

    People stopped caring about image bandwidth decades ago. Try wrangling a video-hosting problem, like PeerTube does.

  • Yeah, Rust is cool, but every CS grad and their mother knows Java.

    Sure, twenty-five years ago, when Sun was pushing their language hard into colleges everywhere.

    Now? Sun Microsystems doesn't even exist, and everybody hates the JVM in an ecosystem where VMWare, Docker, and Kubernetes do the whole "virtual machine" model much better.

  • an alternative Java-based backend to Lemmy’s Rust-based one

    Going from a modern well-designed language to an old-and-busted, kitschy, memory-hogging, bloated language. This is literally a step backwards.

    Rust, Go... hell, even Ruby-on-Rails or whatever Python is offering nowadays would be a better choice.

  • And then those good employees go work for your competition. Oopsie!

    And Amazon's competition is...

  • When you get articles like this, the first thing you should ask is "Who the fuck is Firstpost?"

  • Yeah, the format is that she repeats the second panel on the fourth panel, with more question marks and concern. This version is almost like explaining the joke here.