I’m glad I’m not the only one!
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.
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
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.
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
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.
Nevermind. I think I misunderstood the comment I was responding to.
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.
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!
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
You won’t find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
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I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
Pretty much me and it’s not just YouTube. Any link to a video instead of an article and I’m out. I think it’s because I can read an article at my speed and get the info quicker. With a video I’m at the mercy of the creator revealing the info to me at their speed, which is usually paced out to keep you watching so they can get their sponsors in and algo boosts. I don’t want to sit through a 15-20 minute video to get info that takes 30 seconds to explain once all that fluff is stripped away.
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.
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
Websites nowadays have conditioned us to start looking at random videos as ads because they keep cramming them into the body of the text. It’s like the download button minefield you see on torrent websites sometimes.
Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn’t the same.
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.
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15 dotzens now.
Right now there’s only 11 of you.
I’ll join!
So, almost dozen?
Yeah, once they hit 24, the statement is true.
We’re almost up to a gross now!
Just gross? Tell me when it gets nasty in here, then I’ll join in.
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.
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.
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
Excuse me, can you stop use big word please thx
I was thinking Fahrenheit 451. Written text is outlawed, everything is conveyed through images.
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…
No “lol”, this is not the place to laugh aloud.
Lmao
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
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.
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’d love a bot for that
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.
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
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.
Amen.
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.
