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A meme is an idea, behavior, or style that spreads by means of imitation from person to person within a culture and often carries symbolic meaning representing a particular phenomenon or theme.

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet, often through social media platforms. The name is by the concept of memes proposed by Richard Dawkins in 1972. Internet memes can take various forms, such as images, videos, GIFs, and various other viral sensations.

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[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully there are better frontends for many social media sites. For YouTube, you can use Piped and Invidious. LibRedirect is a browser addon that automatically redirects all YouTube links to your selected frontend. If you want a native desktop app, check out FreeTube. On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular. On iOS, you can configure Yattee to work with Piped and Invidious, this guide explains it: https://gonzoknows.com/posts/yattee/.

[–] dan@upvote.au 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

On Android you can use LibreTube, NewPipe or a fork of it called Tubular.

Or SmartTube on Android TV.

On Android, there's also ReVanced which lets you apply patches to a bunch of apps, not just YouTube. Unlike some other ways of patching apps (like Magisk modules), ReVanced doesn't need root since it patches the APK before you install the app.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh yeah I completely forgot about SmartTube. I left out ReVanced on purpose, because it still uses the proprietary YouTube app. But if you're ok with this, there's also uYouPlus for iOS.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 7 months ago

ReVanced used the proprietary app, but it patches out a bunch of stuff. I like it because it still works like the regular app.

[–] reddthat@reddthat.com 19 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Is dearrow actually good? Does it work for small streamers?

[–] thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz 33 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It often overcorrects, like not every shitpost really needs a title that sounds like a news article. But for some really clickbaity YouTubers (most) it makes the titles much more usable. The titles are submitted by users, so if the streamer is very small there might be no one to write the titles.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 37 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Tech Connections is a great example imo

"This 90s Microwave is Better Than Yours" is clickbait sure, but it's also literally the point of the video. It got corrected to something like "review of the Panasonic yadda yadda from 1996" and like, that's a less accurate title, guys, it's not actually a review of old kitchen stuff lol

[–] thomasdouwes@sopuli.xyz 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah, that is annoying. But for the "You won't BELIEVE what this microwave can do! 🤯🤯🤯" or worse the "This appliance from the 90s is going to REVOLUTIONIZE your kitchen!" at least become something that gives you some idea if you want to watch. Unfortunately some good videos are hidden behind shitty titles I otherwise wouldn't click.
Not technology connections obviously, their titles are fine.

[–] dumbass@lemy.lol 5 points 7 months ago

It's been a while since I watched his videos, looks like my day off is planed out.

[–] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

You can exclude channels from dearrow, do that with him

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Also I don't why so many de-arrow contributors feel the need to use the word "explaining" at the start of every title. Like "how VR has changed over the years is fine", you don't need to make it "Explaining how VR has changed over the years".

[–] kattenluik@feddit.nl 2 points 7 months ago

I absolutely prefer the latter, adding "Explaining" makes it a readable title for me that I won't skip over.

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

The main use is replacing thumbnail by a random or user-submitted timeframe. Titles can be converted to Sentence case to get rid of all caps words and emojis are removed. Titles can also be replaced by user-submitted alternatives.

[–] Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

It really only serves to perpetuate the behaviour you're trying to avoid cuz to the creator there's still views coming in.

Just my two cents.

[–] sleepybisexual 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Invidious exists, ui is a bit strange but its fine

[–] Just_Monika@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

And based on it, Freetube

[–] sleepybisexual 1 points 7 months ago

That's a good one.

[–] FuCensorship@lemmy.today 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The amount of userscripts I have for YouTube is getting ridiculous...

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

You can use Invidious or Piped. These have a much better, less bloated UI and Piped comes with SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. You also don't get any ads or Google trackers.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 7 points 7 months ago

When Christian Selig announced his independent Apple Vision YouTube App, I thought twice about actually getting one, just so I would’t have to use YouTubes ridiculous Application and Web UIs.

@christianselig@mastodon.social

Then I decided that it would be silly to spend any money on a 1st Gen Apple Vision.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Invidious

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or Piped

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Not as nice (in my opinion)

[–] lapislazuli@sopuli.xyz 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

FreeTube? Or are you watching on your phone?

[–] green_witch 4 points 7 months ago

Just dropping in to say FreeTube is excellent. Carry on.

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

You can replace some of them with a userstyle extension (not Stylish, that tracks you) and applying a style someone else already made.

[–] Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 months ago

Eww, still using the official spyware?

Why not try out a privacy respecting frontend?
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

[–] blibla@slrpnk.net 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

invidious is a good option

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

The only downsides are you can't interact with the video (like and comment) and your watch history isn't synced to your phone (I use revanced).

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 7 months ago

You can use Piped on desktop and LibreTube on Android and use a Piped account to sync your watch history, subscriptions and playlists.

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 7 months ago

for the longest time the annotations switch in the settings menu existed, up until like 2018 i wanna say? They removed annotations in 2016 iirc, may have been 2018, and i'm fuzzing the years, it's been a hot while give me some slack.

Still sad about annotations.

[–] myxi@feddit.nl 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I don't care about video comments anymore; in my experience it was filled with attention-seeking content and incels trying to look cool. It's also full of bots in the reply sections.

Instead, I use mpv media player to watch YouTube. I pick a video off my recommendations or the subscription page then I copy the video link and then I just have to do mpv in my terminal. It's also much faster on my low-end PC.

It doesn't have sponser-block support, but it does have ad-blocker. I haven't really checked sponser-block support yet either.

Edit: found this for sponser-block support.

[–] jherazob 3 points 7 months ago

HOWEVER, there's cases where you do want to be able to like and comment: My main use case for Youtube these days is following crafters, people who make awesome stuff. And i do want to like and comment on those videos, not just for the obvious feedback to them but also to give them a hand in spreading the word of their stuff.

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 7 months ago

There's even a firefox addon that lets you open videos in mpv with one click: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ff2mpv/

On macOS, I recommend a fork of mpv called IINA. It also has a Firefox addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-in-iina-x/

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

I also have pockettube for categorising my subscriptions

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 4 points 7 months ago

They're moving comments?? Why??

[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 4 points 7 months ago (3 children)

This is me with the last few “redesigns” of chrome. Stop adding dead space to my fuckin bookmarks!

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 7 months ago

that's on you for still using chrome

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

at least with chrome there's alternatives

[–] Andromxda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 7 months ago

Use Firefox or LibreWolf

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

play with mpv and mpv sponsorblock and good.

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 7 months ago

Play with mpv is the only way I can have youtube hw acceleration on my laptop

[–] Gestrid@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 months ago

Anyone know of a TamperMonkey addon to get the old YouTube UI back? Need to bookmark it for whenever YouTube makes the change on my account.

[–] pewpew@feddit.it 2 points 7 months ago

You should also try YT Redux

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 points 7 months ago

I actually had the comments on the right for only a day or two, looks like you're part of a test batch.

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 7 months ago

what allows to bring subscribed tab back