Youtube is past the growth phase, at this point it’s about minimising cost and maximising revenue.
If you regularly use it with adblock but decide to stop using it because of this, then youtube would have succeeded. You weren’t making them money and were costing them bandwidth, so good riddance.
If you really want to stick it to them, turn on adblock, find some long videos and play them on mute in the background at 4K/1080p60 resolution. Cost them even more bandwidth.
Even better, start randomly disliking videos or making nonsensical comments (not hateful or toxic ones, just comments that don’t make sense). Enshittify it further.
Have you or your parents never used a phone book to look up businesses and ended up calling A1 Plumbing, AAA locksmith, etc?
So basically, bosses can’t deal with the fact that they can’t step out of their room and yell at people, and therefore still want to inconvenience everyone.
you can’t use power delete anymore. sort your own posts by top (all time), and manually change the useful ones.
The only thing I did was use adblock to disable the red speech symbol for chat lol. Never even used it!
Also, we don’t necessarily need a big userbase. Just a good active one. More is not necessarily better in my opinion.
Unfortunately, the main benefit of having a large userbase is that you can always find a community for any obscure interest you have! That’s not really the case with lemmy now.
because reddit was a firehose of low-effort posts. A lot of times if you don’t reply quick enough your post gets buried under 100 other witty puns and nobody ever reads it.
I don’t know about you but I find these bot posts actually useful! And there’s healthy discussion too which is the point of lemmy?