often it’s just the lack of contraception and/or appropriate education.

yeah, in the old days, yt was paying per view. now they pay for the time the viewer sticks around on the platform. therefore videos get unnecessary prolonged and such interactions get promoted.

i have a couple of authors which i follow, so that i don’t need to look up and simply filter out what might be interesting to me.

but i would much prefer to get those videos via other channels. at some point i had a program set up, which just grabs videos from the author i choose to my local machine, but my home server is currently not up and disc space became a serious budget issue.

it’s a type of entertainment, like watching tv or Netflix. that much i can understand. mainly because i mostly use it for those reasons, but i just follow particular creators. just each time you go there you get some complete bs suggestions, which are always clickbait. on top recently a lot of that “content” is so obvious to be entirely ai generated. the yt algorithm just sucks. at least for me… but somehow that is how a lot of ppl earn their livelihood.

i just blocked the entire front page of yt, I don’t remember seeing a single suggested video which i didn’t regret watching.

i tried all three for my personal use. so i can’t say much about collaboration aspects. anyway:

• gitlab is old, stable and solid. and it eats half of your servers resources.
• gitea and forgeji are for me equal in experience, which is makes sense, as one being a fork of the other. i haven’t had any issues with anything, from setting up, using openid as auth method, to ssh passthrough.
• eventually i settled now on forgejo, simply for ideology reasons. it’s heavily developed, so things might change. but they have this nice attitude to not release a latest tag for docker. so you can’t accidentally update to a breaking change. had this issue with some other programs, which i spun up to quickly.
• looking forward to federation feature on forgejo!