I’ve heard YouTubers say they aren’t making as much from their regular videos and that YouTube is pushing shorts. So the Youtubers have started to focus on shorts. I don’t like short so I don’t watch them.

For me it was magic. I love watching magicians. When I got a chance to do some magic tricks it just wasn’t as much fun as watching someone else do them.

Remember when MTV first started and didnt have adds and only player music vidsos?

That sorts on the comments of all posts, not just the ones I am interested in.

The ability to “subscribe” to a thread so you could be told when anyone adds to the thread. I don’t understand how people follow a thread without this. You would have to constantly be going back to it (over and over) to seeing if anything was added.

Universal Android Debloater can help with privacy by deleting some Google programs. As a bonus, it can remove unwanted junk from your phone. Github link to Universal Android Debloater

So what is the general approach that people use to go back to see if more comments are added?

You can use Joplin without any cloud sync at all and the notes just stay on your one device.

Joplin https://joplinapp.org/ It is a free an open source note taking app similar to Evernote. You can keep your data on a cloud service (such as Dropbox) to keep your notes in sync between Android, Windows, Linux and IOS or you can pay for Joplin Cloud storage.

Here is a site that rates news sites that may help you pick what sites to follow via RSS. I am sure there are other pages like this if this one doesn’t seem accurate to you. https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/

I just use RSS feeds of the YouTube channels I want to follow. I am sure that will be taken away from us soon to force us to do things the way they want. Until then … go RSS!

I am more interested in following topics than following individuals, so I use Lemmy way more than Mastodon.