I partially disagree. It depends on *why* they sent the link.
If it’s totally out of nowhere, I agree; if someone asks a question and their channel/video answer the question? Feel free to advertise yourself.
I hate basically all youtube links on Lemmy, it seems like this is “reading” social media, not “watching” social media.
I’ve just started downvoting anything that looks like it’s promoting a YouTube channel. I don’t want a five or ten minute video communicating something I can read in thirty seconds.
Okay so I’m not insane
I don’t want a five or ten minute video communicating something I can read in thirty seconds.
There’s video oriented communities, just like on reddit.
Otherwise, yeah, exactly. The whole reason I enjoyed the reddit communities was reading not watching or listening.
Whew, boy, that escalated quickly 🤣
Well I guess I can offer a dissenting opinion on this one. YouTube video links are fine on Lemmy? I like watching a short video or two each day?
Yes, YouTube sucks for privacy. So I don’t have an account and use Firefox Focus to be anonymous. I do wish there were better alternatives to YouTube.
I don’t like ads and that includes people advertising a channel. But I haven’t personally seen this happen much on Lemmy. Maybe not all. I guess I don’t see why it needs to be banned.
Anyone else seeing things this way? Or am I missing something?
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I’ve thought about it more. I think I was indeed missing something. Is the complaint referring to all the posts that contain nothing but a YouTube link?
If that’s the case, I guess it’s a valid complaint. Doesn’t really bother me though. I just scroll on by the posts that don’t interest me
Somewhat private way to watch YouTube: Piped. I believe the piped bot comments under everything with a YouTube link with an alternative link anyway. Just use that.
Complerly agreed, except that YouTube has privacy issues if you know how to protect yourself.
One of the reasons I love YouTube is that there’s no authwall, and there’s tons of alternative front ends… So it’s completely anonymous
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There’s some bot that links to piped, but i’d prefer people stop using youtube as a source for information / shilling their channel
piped often doesnt work for me… not sure why
It takes forever to load. Did you let your tea go cold before giving up?
Wait it takes forever for you? Like the piped app? Mine has been instant for the last 2 years. Like straight up faster than the Youtube offical app
Everytime I used Piped I would deal with buffering lasting an entire year, or the video just outright wouldn’t play (very common on kavin.rocks)
Invidious doesn’t have this problem but it doesn’t support Sponsorblock and I’m not a big fan of its UI
Videos can* provide better privacy explanations (ex: animating asymmetric key exchange) The videos that get posted on here, well…
How about banning video essays?
This. It depends on the source. Always consider the source.
Even a video essay can be credible, if they cite their sources
I was considering blocking all posts containing youtube links. No-one wants some opionated arse-monger broadcasting to them in bed.
There are folks on YouTube that cite their sources. Don’t ban the platform just because many of the uses suck.
More than posting their own channels or doing it on an anti-privacy website, I am annoyed by the medium itself. Even if it’s a topic of interest, videos can become really tedious depending on the author with no practical way to get around it, plus very little accessibility; it’s always more convenient in text.
Some would argue it’s more accessible in video format. Personally I think it’s best to write an article and then do a breif video summary that links to the article “for more info”
Agreed - I just had to block the user that’s been loading up the place with his YT links but that cleaned up my feed quite nicely. Suggest a ban for that one too (didn’t want to name anyone but should be painfully obvious by looking at recent activity).
The only reason advertising was banned on reddit was so they could monetize. If the content is relevant to the community, I don’t care if the person sharing it created it. I appreciate the submission.
Let the votes decide the quality of the content.
I don’t really care if someone shares their own content as a participating member of the community, but these people are dwarfed by those who just spam their links to every community on Lemmy that bares even the slightest amount of relevance.
You dont know that tho. I have multiple lemmmy accounts. Most if them are anonymous, but when I post my own content, I use my real name.
The only thing I use my “real name” Lemmy account for is self - promotion, but that doesn’t mean I dont participate with other accounts.
Folks have the right to anonymity.
Why would you run, for example, a programming based YouTube channel, but not want to use that same account when interacting with the community on topics of programming? You have a right to anonymity, but people also have the right to block you if you only use that account to spam links in different communities with no other engagement because there’s nothing to differentiate you from all the bots doing the same thing for different reasons.
My point is you shouldn’t make assumptions. Just because you can’t track all of my activity doesn’t mean I’m a bot.
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“Let the votes decide the quality of the content” is capitalist rhetoric that was the start of reddit’s end. It is not an argument, it is not a principle to stand behind, and it most definitely is not a better alternative to guidelines the community can vote on.
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