I probably could if i had to, that’s what i tell myself at least. For now though it’s my primary source of entertainment.
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I could, but why would I? That makes no sense from a social perspective, if someone links me a video and we want to talk about it, I'll watch it. If a person whose content I want to see happens to release that on YouTube, I'll watch it.
Unless you meant it another way?
The only thing I use it for is Dreaming Spanish, and it's months since I've watched any of that content, so I'll say yeah, I think I'll be ok in a world without Youtube
I haven’t been to YouTube in over a decade. Granted, many embedded videos have been hosted on YouTube. I see a need for video hosting, and I’m not sure how that could be sustainable without advertising.
Perhaps there could be something like a a torrent, where people volunteer a certain amount of free space, and files are downloaded in chunks from whomever is available at the time? There could be one central repository, with clones, that keeps track, and distributes these chunks in the most efficient way, and moves frequently accessed data to faster hosts.
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Yes hypothetically but only if the youtubers I actually care about have content elsewhere as well. Which is some but not many
While I have revanced on my phone and smarttube on my chromecast, the last time I watched a youtube video for an extended amount of time was two month ago. I did open those apps a few weeks ago, but only to see if youtube finally blocks them. So yeah, I guess I can quit youtube cold turkey now.
No, not really
Not really. Most of the content I watch is from there, from tech stuff to history and current news
Probably one of the harder things that I could do. It's a replacement for TV so I could try and slot in TV but I think it would be frustrating to not have the copious amounts of content
TV is simply not there. Some YouTube channels are about a topic that's so niche that there's nothing similar on TV.