• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    262
    arrow-down
    7
    ·
    3 months ago

    Twitter is not a utility. We really need to stop treating techbro services like utilities. If we feel they actually are utilities, the government can step in and make that claim and the appropriate changes.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.net
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        21
        arrow-down
        5
        ·
        3 months ago

        I’m not on tiktok, but I’ll admit to using YouTube as a search engine a lot. Also googling something and immediately hitting the video tab before reading any of the results.

          • Chocrates@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            27
            ·
            3 months ago

            I must be a dinosaur because for most things I am looking up I want concise textual information. I’ll look for videos to explain larger complicated concepts

            • Rolando@lemmy.world
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              11
              ·
              3 months ago

              If it’s something like taking apart hardware, videos are great because there are a lot of little details that it’s hard to capture in even a picture.

            • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              3 months ago

              Sure, video has it’s place. I was just wondering that some people get their info primarily from video. Guess it’s something with abstraction vs. imagination.

          • PerogiBoi@lemmy.ca
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            13
            ·
            3 months ago

            I only find videos useful if I’m trying to figure out something that’s procedural. Seeing the procedures and steps done in front of me helps me grasp the concept much faster than text.

            For just information though, text is golden and video is a waste of time.

          • umbrella@lemmy.ml
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            5
            ·
            3 months ago

            i hate it, but i just cant find decent written resulta anymore outside of reddit and such

            • uis@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              2
              ·
              edit-2
              3 months ago

              Depends on field. Some meth math and programming stuff exists only in PDF. Try find videos on Bounding Interval Hierarchy. At least there are decent videos on BSP trees

              • JackbyDev@programming.dev
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                1
                arrow-down
                4
                ·
                edit-2
                3 months ago

                PDFs break my brain. It’s 2024. Unless you truly intend for something to be primarily and only read in print why use PDF? And I know everybody is able to host HTML because usually everyone is grabbing these PDFs from a webpage.

                Edit: down voters, convince me on valid uses of PDFs for things that aren’t meant to be printed. At least list some. I’m aware this is an extreme opinion. It’s one I’ve thought about a lot, but I just can’t think of any. For things that are meant to be printed then I agree they’re the best. Everything else I think HTML is better for because it can be resized arbitrarily and isn’t bound to a specific layout. Also copying text from PDFs is bonkers.

                • uis@lemm.ee
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  2
                  ·
                  3 months ago

                  Unless you want to force readers into reading in browser, you should use PDF.

        • stellargmite@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          2
          arrow-down
          1
          ·
          3 months ago

          I liken using groogle for finding factual information to using the yellowpages for doing the same. YT isn’t much better but it suffers many of the conflicts of interest traditional media outlets also had, depending on the corporation. In this case the almighty algorithm is the conflict of interest, though there are clever content creators out there making some good stuff, they’ll always be beholden to the owners of the platform and the true customers - the advertisers. As an advertising platform which can direct punters to actual long form content directly supported by watchers via patreon or similar, I understand why it is used : the sheer numbers using it.

          • lightnegative@lemmy.world
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            6
            arrow-down
            1
            ·
            3 months ago

            Why? All it’s going to do is output some words that have a statistical correlation to your input words

            • Petter1@lemm.ee
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              1
              ·
              3 months ago

              Well, that is mostly what I need and it summarises the search results as well.

              Of course, you have to apply your critical thinking skills, but you gotta do that always everywhere. Normal humans talk as much trash as LLMs do, in my experience.

    • Fisk400@feddit.nu
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      41
      arrow-down
      4
      ·
      3 months ago

      If it’s a private company that con do what it wants, like blocking political opponents, it should not be under safe harbor protections.

      That’s the point in yelling about this. If Elon wants a private forum for him and his mates, he should also be fully responsible when his mates posts child porn on his servers.

    • Logi@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      The EU has declared Twitter and a few others to be gate-keepers and they will now be held to a higher standard. But I don’t think the EU is going to use this power to save US democracy.