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All of the above is precisely why I write long winded articles chock-a-block full of pictures and I don’t produce video essays.
Well, that and having a face made for radio but a voice made for print may also have something to do with it.
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
Add to it, 99% of people completely suck at presenting.
I have siblings who are teachers, and I’m a technical instructor. We work hard to not waste your time.
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
And in a well-written, well-organized article, you can very quickly and easily skip paragraphs or entire sections that aren’t relevant to what you’re trying to get out of it.
Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn’t the same.
there’s been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I’m just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.
ofc it’s not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it’s just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes
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I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I’m in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don’t use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn’t get.
It’s also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I’ve already lost track of midway.
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don’t realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don’t know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
Reading requires attention. YouTube videos you can put on in the background during work or other activities.
I can’t imagine why I’d want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.
I listen to music at work.
depends on the job: but I think audiobooks and podcasts are generally better for jobs where you don’t need your full attention on the job.
hmm, while I’m doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn’t occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
Nevermind. I think I misunderstood the comment I was responding to.
Music has no new information though, that’s just for enjoyment. Some of us don’t have enough time in a day to do everything we want to do so you gotta hack it lol
I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
Right now there’s only 11 of you.
I’ll join!
So, almost dozen?
Yeah, once they hit 24, the statement is true.
15 dotzens now.
post literate society gets closer everyday
If my client base is any indication it’s already here. We are thus as a society, to use the vernacular, most likely cooked.
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
I was thinking Fahrenheit 451. Written text is outlawed, everything is conveyed through images.
Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I’m not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Often things like that are so they don’t have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!
Yeah. That’s just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don’t have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don’t have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
Apparently the general population has an understanding of written/spoken language at about the 6th grade level…
What if the recent push back into feudalism works too well and we get the “dark ages” all over again… lol…
Well hey, that’s improved over 40 years ago. USA Today famously wrote to a 4th grade reading level.
But yeah, second dark ages is for real happening all around us.
All the apps are orchestrated social engineering to separate us from one another, making us easier to divide/manipulate
And if it’s an X link I take a little detour to block the poster as well.
I copy the url and replace the domain part with xcancel.com
Just as annoying as the fact i have to watch a fucking 15 minute youtube garbage video with obnoxious musc just to get a tutorial that could have been written into 3 sentences.
Dude never would I ever have dreamed I’d yearn for the days of 2 minute videos with notepad being used to communicate but here we are.
BANDICAM AND NOTE PAD YEEEEE BUDDY
Lemmy plugin idea: when someone posts a YouTube link, the server copies the video to peertube instead.
Or maybe we could build that into the client to save server resources.
YouTube is not the problem here. Some people don’t want to listen to some idiot talking. Where is the text, god damn it. I sometimes use AI to turn a video into text because I hate watching videos for information so much.
I hate when the information I’m trying to get is trapped in a video. It’s not often that I can’t find text alternatives, but it happens on occasion. Being trapped watching a video whose purpose is only partly to deliver information (the other part to game the algo and appease sponsors), when I could have found the info I needed in 30 seconds if it was text – that’s my idea of torture.
One of the very few legitimately game-changing aspects of AI in my life is video summaries.
I’d love a bot for that
There used to be a bot that would link to some YouTube frontend whenever a link got posted, but it almost never worked and even when it did it got downvoted constantly
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.
But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.
YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that’s long solved.
I prefer to stick to anything that doesn’t now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.
I’m glad I’m not the only one!
Just change YouTube to yewtu.be
That was my first thought, but I think the idea is that a well thought and written article can be a better medium for certain materials than a video on where someone just narrates something and shows slightly unrelated royalty free videos.
could use the ask button for the citations the video is using and read those, or sometimes they’re linked in the description
Or find a repost.
Yeah dude, you should absolutely believe this thing I’m saying. I even have a source. [two hour video from some youtuber]
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he’ll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his “journalism” is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn’t make you right on other things.
Hear me out, if you start it from the cover up where the investor and his son’s plane explode and the evidence vanishes you can watch the rest to the song “bodies hit the floor”. Murders end around the same time the first reports of Epstein surfaced in 94. CIA is tied in.
