They are a video creator first and foremost, not a writer for a blog or a magazine. It's like demanding a janitor to make and serve you a meal just because they work in a kitchen.
And then asking the janitor why they're a janitor instead of a cook. Like, if you don't like videos that's fine, but what is the point of commenting on one saying "god I hate videos."
It's especially funny that they said that everyone defaults to videos when, at least with Linux related stuff, thats definitely not the case. This guy is one of the few not terrible Linux content creators, there really aren't many Linux dedicated content creators to begin with, so what's the harm of this? Go read the arch wiki or a blog if that's what you prefer, but don't needlessly shit on a different format that others may prefer or enjoy.
Wow, thanks for calling me stupid man, really appreciate it. Lemme know when/if you're interested in having a civil conversation instead of spewing insults every other sentence.
You're downvoted to oblivion for being right. Well you could've phrased it nore civil and friendly though 😌
I miss the Internet of the beginnings. Pure, simple and efficient information. Mostly.
I'd argue the downfall slowly started with geocities and the rise of "funny" animated gifs and music in websites.
And it all went bonkers with "web2.0" and sites needing 15 fat libraries and megabytes of visual pleasures to just tell the time...
For many kinds of content, I also prefer text over video for exactly the reason you say—it takes less time to read. In particular, if a company can choose a medium, I wish they close text more often. So, there is a kernel of a reasonable point here.
All that said…
Beyond just the totally unacceptable tone, even the reasonable part of the comment is misplaced here.
This is not a company, it is a single guy. Projecting onto his videos your thoughts on the motivations of the “marketing” dept seems a bit silly.
Most importantly, this guy is a YouTube content creator. His job is to create videos for YouTube. People ( regular people ) ask him to do that. Insulting a YouTube content creator for creating content on YouTube is….well…I do not not want to start the name calling but let’s just say the insults hurled above apply more to the person making those comments than they do to the guy who made this video.
As for the bigger picture, there is room in the world for both text and video. Have you ever watched television? Do you constantly rant that everything on TV should have been a book or an article? What was more popular: Game of Thrones or a Song of Ice and Fire?
Despite your preference, video has more reach. This has been true since there has been video.
There is a lot of demand for YouTube videos. There is enough that regular people are able to make a small business for themselves out of creating YouTube content. That is what is happening here. Telling somebody to stop creating content that their fans enjoy and that funds the life that they want is pretty hostile and not very smart.
YouTube is entertainment. This is not content you have to consume. It is not about efficiency. It is not content that would have been produced some other way. If you do not like it, don’t consume it. Please though, do not waste everybody’s time complaining that it exists.
100%. I get where he's coming from, but making it seem like this is all a conspiracy by marketers is just ridiculous. If you prefer text, that's fine! But no one is going into the arch wiki and spamming about how they should ditch it for video. Different things appeal to different people, and writing off an entire format just because Google has enshittified YouTube is just dumb.
Oh no, don't get me wrong. Of course Youtube isn't evil/bad per se. It totally has a reason to exist.
And of course youtubers make videos.
And yes, i simply don't consume YouTube unless i have to.
But, i am not on Youtube here. I am not here to grant someone a buck for a view. I don't want advertisement. And i certainly don't want videos. It personally pisses me off that i so often click on an interesting post here (lemmy in general) just to end up paywalled or in a damn video. That is all.
I'd love a simple feature to opt out of posts that just advertise their youtube-video. If I'd want that, I'd go to, well, Youtube 😁
Not ranting about the existence of this video (it might be awesome, what do i know), but it's just totally misplaced imho.
Like i wouldn't want to browse YouTube to find videos of a picture or a text.
Yeah sure it's called "social MEDIA", which includes all media. I'd just love to select what to consume.
I do think an option to suppress video content would be useful for people that really do not want to encounter it.
That said, this was not shared by the original content creator. This is not an advertisement. This is a Lemmy user sharing what they found to be interesting content with the rest of us. I really cannot be bothered by that.
I look to Lemmy to curate good content and let me know that it exists. How much time I have to dedicate to it is on my end. There are plenty of articles that I open and decide I do not have time for as well. Sometimes, I get value just from the comments.
If somebody else watches the video and leaves a useful comment about it, or starts an interesting discussion, that can be valuable and that can be read. So, I am not sure that getting rid of all video content would be a net positive for me even I never watch them.
At the very least, the comments here can be a gauge of what video content is most worth watching.
I dunno how that would be a trustworthy gauge. We talk here and i still don't know the content of that video 😁
Sure, to each his own, but still....it's lemmy, not reddit.
And also this is a linux-post. I wonder how the efficiency of Linux goes with the inefficiency of videos with ads in it.
But that's just me, and I'm just annoyed by no client (that i know of) having such simple feature to just ignore video-posts, especially if it's YouTube. Or just links to reddit or even nastier paywalls. Even if i might miss a good discussion or real information in the comments i would never see.
Though, Of course, you're not wrong with all you said.
Amen. So this. I always audibly sigh at this shit. The tiniest piece of information is always wrapped into tons of useless crap and blahblah which could've been a highly informative block of text or a table.
As if the net wasn't already full of bloat anyway.
I play videos on the back ground or on the side while I code. The visuals are nice sometimes to clarify something but the audio is the bulk of what I am taking in.
This is one of the areas I see this whole "AI" thing being super useful. It could probably transcribe the video, separate the text into coherent sections and paragraphs, and take stills from the video as pictures. If the AI is smart enough, it could selectively pick out the right stills.
Yeah for some reason lemmy just discards any formatting (including line breaks) when parsing website content. But I think that's because Lemmy has a very weird way of dealing with line breaks in general.
I know that, but it uses some weird Markdown implementation where new lines aren't actually new lines for some reason. GitHub Markdown doesn't have this issue.
