‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything::The term describes the slow decay of online platforms such as Facebook. But what if we’ve entered the ‘enshittocene’?

  • @[email protected]English
    9•9 months ago

    I’ve been trying to remember and watch all the old YouTube videos I loved before they disappear either completely or behind a paywall that I won’t pay.

    Let’s get some shoes. Let’s get some shoes. OMG! Shoes!

    All of that will be gone soon. Not just the space where people can let their creativity flow, but where there is nearly 2 decades of that kind of creativity archived.

    • EchEnglish
      2•9 months ago

      I actually just went through my old favorites (that are still accessible) and downloaded them with jdownloader last weekend.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•9 months ago

        :( I should probably archive anything I ever enjoyed. I wish I had put more time into remembering what those all were, I was too busy just having fun. I had entirely forgotten about Liam Kyle Sullivan, including that was what his name was, until very recently. Muffins was uploaded in 2007, am I officially old? Pre2010 YouTube was so simple. I remember uploading runescape videos to YouTube before Google bought it.

        • @[email protected]BEnglish
          2•9 months ago

          Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

          Muffins

          Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

          I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

        • EchEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Pretty much. Even if seemingly every website wasn’t diving into anti-user nonsense, things online don’t last forever. I think it’s worthwhile to make a backup of pretty much anything you feel is worth the effort and space.

          • @[email protected]English
            1•9 months ago

            I wonder if I should put the effort into making a desktop and/or android UI that downloads every video you watch in a format you specify for archive(so you could watch in whatever res but archives in 1080 or lower for space). Fork something like free-tube and run python for yt-dlp to archive. It would just be a font end for existing back end, and would probably be less effort than manually downloading anything I feel important. Just delete anything I feel isn’t when it’s in the archive folder.

            • IllecorsEnglish
              1•9 months ago

              I remember there being a an mpv extension for firefox to watch youtube in mpv locally - you might want to look for inspiration there.

              There’s also freetube that might be extended in an easier way.