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There's something magical when one location becomes the default for something. A site like this would be impossible if YouTube wasn't the place for videos. It'
by LeoPanthera 2y ago
There's something magical when one location becomes the default for something. A site like this would be impossible if YouTube wasn't the place for videos.
It's why I'm sad that we no longer have one obvious default for microblogging. It was such a rich source of thoughts. That's all gone now.
- paledot 2y agoAnd the former default is no longer developer friendly. (Or friendly to anyone else, really.)
- a1o 2y agoI can't tell if this trail of talk is about Tumblr, Blogger, or something else - idnk, does anyone else remembers Astroatlas?
- Wingy 2y agoI’m pretty sure they’re referring to Twitter.
- briandear 2y agoTwitter still exists. Renamed. Same exact thing. You can create an account and post whatever random things you want. Some people might follow you. Some might not. If you see something that makes you sad, you can block the person who posted the sad thing.
- staplers 2y agoIt's a walled garden. Unless you are logged into an account it's basically a private network.
- lenkite 2y agoAll social media have to be walled gardens or be free-prey for ravenous AI bots. Evolution at work.
- microtonal 2y agoor be free-prey for ravenous AI bots Have you recently been on X?
- latexr 2y agoI think your parent comment is talking about AI bots consuming the content, while you seem to be making a point about AI bots posting content.
- darkwater 2y agoThere are thousands of bluecheck AI bots that just copy-paste/regurgitate or just make up stupid content and post it continuously to get engagement views and money. It is really worse than before.
- mavhc 2y agoWhy are you following them?
- Uehreka 2y agoYou don’t need to follow someone to see their content. When you open the app the default timeline is the “For You” one. Sometimes you don’t even notice that the app has switched back to “For You”, X definitely doesn’t really want you staying on the “Following” tab.
- 5040 2y agoThe regurgitated content is often in the form of comments in popular threads.
- hmry 2y ago"no longer developer friendly" referring to them re-pricing their API to make aggregating data for fun monetarily infeasible.
- microtonal 2y agoNot just aggregating data for fun. It made third-party clients like Tweetbot impossible. Similar to non-old.reddit.com, the web interface has been crappy for a pretty long time, but was easily worked around by using better clients. No more.
- latexr 2y ago> Same exact thing. It very much is not. No third-party clients; can’t see threads without an account; owner inserting himself and his ideology at the centre; fewer and less diverse participating people; diminished trust in the platform; more spam; different verification rules… Even the character limit is different.
- walthamstow 2y agoEven blocking has changed!
- eru 2y agoProbably Twitter? Tumblr and Blogger were for regular blogging, not micro-blogging.
- johtso 2y agoYoutube certainly isn't developer friendly.. their APIs have very strict limits that often force people to go down the scraping route
- hoseja 2y agoOh you'll be back.
- adr1an 2y agoWe don't need centralization for this. Federated protocols like mastodon have friendlier APIs than some of the most popular walled gardens of today...
- xattt 2y agoDiscovery sucks, though.
- JasserInicide 2y agoMastodon is a walled garden
- AlexeyBelov 2y agoCan you elaborate?
- account42 2y agoMastodon the software isn't. Mastodon the community is because they want to control who is and isn't allowed to federate.
- adr1an 2y agoiiuc your argument, it would be more accurate to phrase it as: mastodon, lemmy, and other federated social protocols are like archipelagos of small islands. Or, you were referring to bluesky.
- MichaelZuo 2y ago
- Dylan16807 2y agoI don't see why a site like this couldn't search one or more of the top video sites if there was healthy competition.