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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I wanted to see what it is about other than the title. Thankfully, some of the replies here have given me where to go to get the info to make a decision before I watch the video.

Peertube mirror (thanks to @[email protected]):

Transcript (thanks to @[email protected]):

Description (taken from the TED talk link):

“We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start,” says investigative journalist Carole Cadwalladr. In a searing talk, she decries the rise of the “broligarchy” — the powerful tech executives who are using their global digital platforms to amass unprecedented geopolitical power, dismantling democracy and enabling authoritarian control across the world. Her rallying cry: resist data harvesting and mass surveillance, and support others in a groundswell of digital disobedience. “You have more power than you think,” she says. (This talk contains mature language.)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for linking the peertube mirror!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It's from this comment somewhere else in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/17995404

I just took the link there as well as other information from the other comments here and collated the information along with the description.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Sorry I don't click YT, unless it's really worth it. What is the video about?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i have no affiliation with this but i recommend peertubeify. it automatically or links to the same video on peertube

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/peertubeify/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

+, peertube has a feature to auto-upload YT videos based on links too :)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thx once again. Great video, well worth listening to.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

no problem :D

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

thx, a lot! I will watch it asap :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

May I ask why the strict yt avoidance? Have no intentions of persuading you either way, just curious.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago

It's a personal choice, based on personal priorities.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago
  1. Google

  2. They’re now trying to force people to log in just to watch any videos. Included embedded videos.

I really wish people would use alternative platforms.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i was like you for years. YEARS!

newpipe (or some other front end) saved me from missing absolutely everything

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm going to continue missing out I guess. Youtube isn't the problem, it's videos. It used to be that if you wanted to learn something, you could just read it. Now everything is a video. I hate it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Strong agree. Looking for help for a specific step in a process sucks balls. Nothing is searchable anymore, you have to skip through the video in the hopes of seeing the person do two clicks you're missing and that's it. Even worse are the slideshow videos.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's a video because it's a TED Talk (not a TED Essay). However, they do provide transcripts: https://www.ted.com/talks/carole_cadwalladr_this_is_what_a_digital_coup_looks_like/transcript

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

Thanks. Excellent read, and it took me less than a minute to get through instead of the 20 it would have taken to watch (assuming I remembered to by the time I'm somewhere I can watch a video).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago

That was a nice talk, but I grew tired of the audience clapping at weird moments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Fantastic speech. The more voices talk about this, the more people will start to care.