Get ready for the new hot site in Russia, HighWindow, showcasing “accidental” deaths as you’ve never seen them before!
people always joke about this but defenestration has never been that common in neither the Russian Empire, USSR nor Russian Federation
I don’t want to lose access to bootleg movies on ok.ru
no clue what that is but will always be sailing the seven seas.
It is like Russian facebook but without any need to respond to or honor any US/EU copyright treaties while under sanctions
Don’t forget their general lack of moderation. I’d use just about any site over OK.ru as I’ve seen some truly reprehensible videos on there.
Hey now, be fair. Moldova has a big presence there too… proportionately.
Could we just get YouTube to stop working…everywhere?
I feel like we’d need a scientific research project to figure out how to replace youtube with something that won’t enshitifiy.
We could try splitting it into three sites - funny, stupid, and trashy.
No way, then I’d have to actually pay people to fix stuff.
Now if shorts stopped working, id be good with that.
eh, there have been some education shorts I’ve seen that got me to subscribe to their YouTube channel.
I just want to have the ability to control the algorithm on my account so my recommendations don’t get clogged with low quality, spammy, rage bait videos
I just want to have the ability to control the algorithm
I know of at least one selfhosted alternative: https://github.com/chris-lovejoy/YouTube-video-finder
There may be others if you look around.
You might be, but the vast majority of the population would not like it.
Sure one could argue that the content is addictive and they shouldn’t want to view that stuff, but that’s a separate issue.
Now if we could just get the Russia out of our internet.
Start with yourself.
Is me, Boris.
You can get the Internet out of Russia but not Russia out of the Internet.
This is something they have been working on for years.
Oh no. How will they know how to do things now without Indian guys to explain?
vk
All other Google services might be the next.
