YouTube Free November

[candycanearter07]

Well I was doing good, then I kinda hit an emotional wall on the 17th and 18th and needed an escape. Hopefully I can reel it back in for the end of the month tho.

It did make me feel more productive and everything, too.

[garystu]

I've only been doing this for a week and its made me appriciate YouTube more, not less. YouTube loads well and its app (ReVanced, anyway) works good.

When I'm hungry for web video, I try to go on other sites, but nothing loads and everything stutters. Why does NewPipe lock some PeerTube videos to an unloadable 720p? How fuckin hard would it be for archive.org utilise the services of a CDN more?

I've spent these last few days watching old Channel Awesome videos on Archive.org, which obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit. Its given me a new appreciation for these old videos, which is probably the worst possible outcome honestly.

Maybe if I did the whole month I would attain nirvana, but. I wont. I don't think I'm seriously ready to give web video up.

[Memory]

I'm a bit late to this thread, but I'd like to also give this a go. It's funny because I honestly feel like I waste too much time on YT watching sludge content, instead of watching actual stuff I wanna watch on Netflix or Shudder. I think it's cos YT has this feeling of comfort because I am watching people do their life stuff but it's a habit I wanna get out of cos I actually hate YT as a company/platform and YT is the one social media site I can't seem to chuck lol. This thread has definitely inspired me.

I can't believe how well I've stuck to this - I am normally so bad at sticking to anything! I've felt more productive without YT - been watching better things on Netflix and Shudder and finding time to read books and draw again! I've realised after doing this for so long that I don't even need YT so I deleted the app from my phone.

[candycanearter07]

Well I was doing good, then I kinda hit an emotional wall on the 17th and 18th and needed an escape. Hopefully I can reel it back in for the end of the month tho.

It did make me feel more productive and everything, too.

Stuff got way worse. Maybe next year..

[Cobra!]

So now that it's December, and the end of the challenge.
I mostly stuck to the rules, only breaking them about twice in the whole month.

It actually felt really liberating. It made me realise how addicted I was to the platform, and I used Freetube and Yattee! It feels like I've been relieved of the information and content overload that comes from Youtube.

Even now I don't enjoy being on Youtube at all, as if it's some dark place I should go back to, if that makes sense.

I think after going off Youtube, Discord was the only "big tech" site I went on, and most of my web activity was through forums and Neocities sites (or whereever Wiby's random site feature brought me), and it made me feel a lot closer to the old net.

I don't see myself using Youtube nearly as much now, and I want to thank Melooon for the challenge!