Dude, casinos already use facial recognition. There’s no way in hell that the TSA doesn’t already use it.

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This is actually very similar to how reddit used to be. My theory is two fold.

First is that the people who adopted this as a new site are people who are more technologically inclined. Lemmy has some complexity and most will shy away from that until they’re encouraged by either friends or mainstream adoption. People who are more inclined to try new things are also more inclined to just listen. To use critical thought and help others learn.

The second is that the community is smaller so it feels just like that. A community. Reddit used to. So much so there was a hyper cringe saying that was popular about narwhals. I remember it but refuse to type it out because I hated it then and hate it now. But point being people liked being associated with the site because it felt like friendship and community.

As reddit grew and grew, both of those points slid to the wayside. More people came on so it suppressed the community vibes due to too many voices who weren’t willing to listen to others. Those vibes are contagious and the whole site started to slide down into obscurity.

Your comment is worthless.

I never conflated Tesla owners with Elmo fans. In fact, I exclusively said Elmo fans OR Tesla owners who regret their purchase.

Don’t come after me with your bullshit when you’re actively inventing the boogeyman you’re saying is chasing you.

You can enjoy your garbage car. I never said you couldn’t and I never said you were a bad person for liking it. I actively like garbage things too. Just don’t try and argue that its well made and we are fine.

Well that’s what happens when you make a shoddy piece of trash with ill-fitting panels, random gaps, and frequent electronic failures. Probably from having a petulant piss baby for a CEO.

Edit: Looks like the Elmo fans are around on Lemmy. That or people who are trying to hide from their regret of buying a vehicle that is known to be badly made.

That’s the thing. I AM in that group of people. YouTube is front loaded with a ton of garbage but that site isn’t the correct answer. I get stripping YouTube features. That’s fine. But I’d expect them to leave stuff that isn’t even a feature but simple web design in 2023. Fuck even simple web design in 2005. No website looked that terrible. Everyone, for years, has understood that you need to tweak things slightly so people can process information easily. Slapping everything with the same font, same formatting and then squishing it so close together is idiotic. Even at it’s height, YouTube never looked like so utterly stupid.

Typical. When presented with valid criticism of a garbage app that’s being spammed on every community through a bot you retreat into your shell and say “Well don’t use it then”. Ever think that criticism is something to listen to instead of outright ignoring it? Also why the hell would I contribute to a project I outright do not respect for their marketing methods?

Good luck dude. You’re going to need it if you’re shrieking like a republican the second someone says something you don’t like.

I mean that’s your fault for looking at the explore tab in the first place. Who the hell actually is able to use that anyway when it doesn’t work and is so incredibly weighted to favor specific youtubers?

I only enjoyed old vanced for briefly in its last days

Those days are still going. The death of Youtube Vanced was greatly exaggerated. It didn’t die. It just got beat in the face with a baseball bat and now can’t tell what’s north. I have been using the app since it’s “death”. Honestly it doesn’t make much sense. Some days it’ll say “Can’t watch this here, can only watch on official app” and then other days its like “I am the official app.”

Two things. First is that your link doesn’t work. It’s bringing it to a lemmy link and then it crashes because it ‘could not find post’. Remove the lemmy stuff in the front.

Second is that I fail to see how this website is even remotely better. While YouTube has overdone itself on some features, I don’t understand how removing every feature that has ever existed is any better. The website looks like utter garbage. The fact that it’s not broken up by anything, the fact it has such a simple one color background, and the like 10 pixels border of each video this whole thing just becomes a clusterfuck that’s difficult to look at. My eyes immediately start to glaze over and defocus because what the hell am I supposed to focus on?

Youtube has some serious issues, almost all of them gained since Google purchased the site, but this is actively worse. It’s just Angelfire Youtube. A clunky chaotic mess that has no idea what it’s trying to do. It claims that it’s to be ‘efficient’ but it actively hurts to read the comments. They’re all the same font and same color. The author is bold but that just adds to the sea of white nonsense.

Sure. They may have stripped away everything from youtube to make it ‘efficient’ but they also managed to strip away any basic visual design that lets users process information more easily. I’m not talking extra features. I’m talking simple shit like choosing how much space is available for this specific block, what font to use, what color should that font be, the spacing between videos or blocks, etc.

The same thing happened to reddit. Initially it was popular between older tech guys. Then it started getting more and more popular as the tech guys learned how it worked and taught others how. Then those people taught others.

Were in stage 1.