‘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’?

  • 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.