Internet is not dying, it is being murdered

It's been going to shit for years, but it is almost incomprehensible how quickly it has fallen in the last 6-12 months. If I try to find any review/comparison in an attempt to be a somewhat informed consumer, and it's just all slop.

Yeah this is a huge problem now. Ai generated bullshit has ruined YouTube and it was already ruined by too much garbage.

"Versus" videos or articles in general seem to be especially susceptible to being awful garbage

Capitalism makes it worth it to setup an Agent and 50 new channels on YT that does nearly the same. It doesn't matter how many people gets spammed as long as some views are amassed. It already happens in normal biz on all levels. All AI 'slop' is just Capitalist slop. Really, it's only there to make money.

I find them annoying too, but unfortunately, AI accelerates the Capitalist enshittification we see everywhere..

Youtube is already pretty bad anyways. Adding LLM tools and similar, as a local saying goes, is just a fart to who already shat him/herself.

Can't wait for YouTube to fuck up media hosting for everyone because the ai they've been pushing is flooding their servers.

Truly, who could have seen this coming?

i love the two generic handsome white dudes, who the fuck sees that kind of guy and thinks "ah yes that's the ideal source for computer advice" rather than "oh i've never seen those football teams before"

Let's hope places like Lemmy stay relevant, vivid and slop-proof.

Short form videos are especially flooded with slop and AI voice summaries of movie plots and DIY hacks. Its depressing, but also I'd like to cut back on my mindless content watching and maybe this is the motivation I need.

Imo, just try something out. Fedora has a live USB that you can use to try out drivers, look/feel, etc. See if it meets your needs.

No, not dying. Evolving, adapting to new developments. It is our job to oppose the ones that are not in our interest. The only way we can do is reject these. Unfortunately YT is a lost battle b/c they do not allow downvoting or blocking. In the search results or related videos they are peddling the same AI shit, without people being able to block channels.

If anything, it is YouTube that is dying. No worries though, the Internet will provide something else in its place.

You are partially right. It sucks that the first 3 reviews are slop, but after that is mostly human stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLaKmCmar3E

Also. You can use one of the third-party YouTube clients available for Linux to have more way to filter off content and ads (sadly It won't filter off the Ai slop, at least for now). One of the most used is Piped.

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

https://piped.wireway.ch/trending

If you're wondering about Fedora vs CachyOS, it comes down to what you do on your PC. And what you're used to.

If you want better "preconfiguration" for graphics stuff, CachyOS is the way to go. With Fedora you will end up referencing and maintaining a whole lot more yourself, while the CachyOS maintainers basically do all that maintinance and config optimization for you.

But Fedora might be better for a less GPU-focused "workstation" type system.

Generally, I'd look at the "style" and interests of distro maintainers. CachyOS is built by a collective of linux gaming/compute enthusiasts that snowballed into popularity, though it does inherit all the work from Arch. Fedora is a long standing workstation/server workhorse, a "pre release" for Red Hat enterprise linux.

well ... what would you like to know?

Both are wonderful. I still recommend Fedora to most new users, but I decided to test drive CachyOS almost year ago and then never went back. Cachy is so cozy.

Litterally though, YouTube is so broken now.

They keep watering down the desktop interface and showing me videos that look so inauthentic.

Real persons do not use Linux.

Why would you even search YouTube for that sort of thing? Videos are a terrible format for communicating informationally dense topics.

Shoutout to blocktube: https://github.com/amitbl/blocktube

Usually, the same "few" slop channels dominate a specific topic, so add them to a blocklist and the filtering gets reasonably good.

It's absolutely insane that YouTube doesn't allow this as a native feature.

Honestly, seeing a stock photo guy or woman in a thumbnail nowadays screams AI-generated content. I stay away from those at all costs to prevent YouTube deciding to recommend me more

YouTube is like Imgur, it's a media dump. Most of it is trash. If you're going directly to YouTube.com or from any place other than community link recommendations or to your known curated channels; then it is no surprise that you come across shit 90% of the time.

The fact that their search function fails to find relevant guides or tutorials is a real loss, but they've opted to enshittify.

It doesn't matter what topic you search... that's all YouTube recommendations are anymore.

YouTube is still decent if you can ignore their recommendations. I use other apps (Pipepipe, Grayjay) and my feed is just the creators I want. No ads, no slop, no nonsense. It's like YouTube was 20 years ago.

There are plenty of quality channels out there. Maybe it takes a bit longer to find them but it's possible.

YouTube going down the crapper at record pace.

Imho, the rolling VS point release, desktop environement and X11/Wayland has much more impact than "the distro" choice

Stick with a more popular and try different desktop environnements

i hate how i cant tell its AI

There are ublock lists which block lots of ai content from loading,maybe look into that

I always access youtube through GrayJay, PipePipe or FreeTube, and rarely see these random AI slop recommendations.

If AI was so smart they would use a girl with ponytails and high socks in linux videos

"That's crazy man."