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[-] mrfugu@hexbear.net 3 points 2 weeks ago

it fits a weird niche being on youtube instead of a more “direct” social media like instagram or facebook. I’ve seen kids who don’t have a smart phone, but they have a switch. Can’t run tik tok on the switch but you can run youtube. I’ve seen a handful of kids swiping their nintendos. Personally, it gets me because I basically just go here and youtube since I quit instagram.

Certainly a bad thing, but it gets use because it extends the swipe addiction outside of social media.

[-] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I thought YouTube was social media.

[-] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 2 points 2 weeks ago

You can still use youtube as a mere filehost or as a non-algorithmic light-socialmedia where you just watch videos from your own curated list of subscriptions. Also the last major platform that still sorta works without logging in and semi-consistently via proxy front-ends.

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