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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.
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.
Totally agree, if I'm hoping to retain anything.
I will totally listen to episodes of many of Simon Whistler's channels at work and not care if I remember the details of some random serial killer's history!
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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.
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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).
Providing information is contextual.
Images instead of text for doing something when all of the information can be conveyed through pictures is generally better. Then the person doesn't need to know what the name of a small part is, it doesn't need to be translated, and that is the primary reason this is how they present safety information for things like airplane passengers.
Mart decisions whether to use text, images, and video is important. Literally everything being one of the three is awful.
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.
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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.
That's what the "most rewatched" graph on the scrubber is for.
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
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
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.
While that is an idea that's cool for the fediverse as a whole, it COMPLETELY misses the point of this post. We want to READ the information, not listen to someone trickle feed it to us, peppered with adverts and asides.
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.
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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.
Several times a day, every day. I hate the ones that sucker you in, somehow. I follow the link fully expecting an article, and it's just a video embedded in some site.
But, also the articles that tease the point. It could be two paragraphs, but the writer is apparently paid by the word, so you need to skim two-thirds of the article to get there.
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
Unpopular opinion I know, but I don't hate YouTube.
I don't either, but the chances of me being interested in watching the video being posted are close to zero.
Amen.
If there is a brief summary of what is in the video, especially a mention of the timestamp where the real info is, then I might click on the link.
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.
Yeah dude, you should absolutely believe this thing I'm saying. I even have a source. [two hour video from some youtuber]
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