Quitting D&D (because of WotC being assholes) sucked because I was an Eberron/Keith Baker fan and have a lot of money sunk into D&D.
But I don’t know if I could quit YouTube. If that happened, I’d try to find ways to hack my way around it. I might ask my favorite creators to migrate to other platforms. But if I had no options to get their content but to give YouTube my ID, I might honestly have to do it.
Why quit D&D? Whether WotC is stinky or not, it’s just books and resources you can get anywhere… So acquire the books in ways that don’t support WotC and have the best of both worlds, no?
I wouldn’t want to encourage others to patronize WotC. (And, if I’m running a 5e campaign - which I did for a short time - players who want to play are going to want books even if only the PHB.) So I wouldn’t want to run 5e. I might play 5e as a player if invited. But I’m kindof a “forever GM.”
Yeah, I’m good with acquiring stuff in ways that doesn’t support WotC. I don’t consider buying used to be permissable, however. If I buy used, that’s one used copy that won’t be available to someone else who may instead resort to buying new from WotC. And WotC profits directly from DM’s Guild. Piracy is the only way I’d be ok with it. (And if I don’t want to run 5e, and given that I already have all the core books, the only WotC content I’d be interested in pirating would be Eberron stuff. If I wanted to support Keith Baker without supporting WotC/DM’s Guild, I could just pirate and join Baker’s Patreon. Assuming I can find a good place to pirate that stuff from, of course.)
I specifically do want to participate in TTRPG ecosystems that are more explicitly dedicated to more sane licensing schemes and have very explicitly Ulysses Pact’ed themselves in no-takebacksies ways. Like maybe Paizo/Pathfinder 2e for instance. (I’m currently between groups… and have yet to acquire the PF2e books… and honestly am enjoying a bit of a hiatus from GMing… but when I get back to it, I’d love to do either PF2e or… I dunno. Something not 5e. Even though the 5e system is pretty decent, I think.)
There was a short period of time during which I thought WotC was backing down after the OGL 2.0 debacle, and if they hadn’t immediately proved themselves 100% evil with the Pinkerton fiasco, I would have ended my boycott. But they did, so my boycott remains.
I haven’t seen the D&D movie, nor do I intend to. And I’m not just boycotting WotC. I’m boycotting Hasbro. So, no Transformers movies either.
youtube may be the last american tech that i unhook from, there is simply no where else that has so much video content in one place
i don’t understand how france for example stopped 2 big media companies joining for fear of a monopoly while youtube easily gets far more viewers and watch hours than the two of them combined
I’d give YouTube an ID, but never my ID. They probably just have AI checking them to see if they look real enough. As long as it’s a convincing enough photoshop, it’d probably pass the litmus test.
Same for me.
I’ve been using YouTube for long enough that my over decades curated subscription feed is my primary source of both entertainment and learning, and while I’m successfully degoogling all other aspects of my life, this one will be hard.
I wish Nebula were an alternative, but there’s no way for new creators to start out there the way they can on TikTok or YouTube. And being paywalled, they’d be taking a lot of really important educational information away from public access, essentially restricting themselves to preaching to the choir.
Another thing is youtube’s value isn’t even career creators. Its random people uploading stuff because they thought it’d help someone despite no expectations of any career or monetary compensation.
Im sure lot of us have searched some fix on youtube then been helped by the video posted by a channel where that’s the only video there. So not everyone is looking for a netflix alternative from youtube, but its the encyclopedia of knowledge it offers. I’ve had professor who uploaded their lessons on youtube so people could refer to it.
Who on youtube are you that attached to, out of curiosity? I definitely follow a few creators that would hurt to lose as well, really just looking for recs haha
Well, I guess just to list off who I watch frequently, kinda sorted into categories:
TTRPG:
Critical Role - Really famous. Live-play of TTRPGs. It’s really a huge investment of time to keep up with it, though.
Just people I have parasocial relarionships with:
Any Austin - Kinda “philosophy of gaming” is how I’d describe his latest content. I’ve been a huge fan of his for many many years and am way more invested in him than the content he currently makes. But he’s really fascinating. His alternate channel “The Excellent Man From Minneapolis” is music he writes/records. Good stuff as well IMO.
Memoria - Gaming entertainment content. Found her when she was featured on Austin’s channel.
gl;hf - A podcast that Austin and Memoria do together. It’s about everything and nothing.
Long form deep dive investigative and social commentary stuff:
OKI’s Weird Stories - Cool expos on things like conspiracy theories and cults.
Fredrik Knudson - Similar cool expos on things like gaming communities, fandoms, niche infamous figures, scientific experiments, etc.
Folding Ideas - Somewhere between expos and social commentary. Does stuff about flat earthers, gold, cryptocurrency, etc.
Contrapoints - Insightful and really well-edited/highly-prodiced left-wing social commentary stuff.
Philosophy Tube - Quite similar to Contrapoints but different. I’d imagine if you like one, you’d like both.
Munecat - Also similar to Contrapoints and Philosophy tube.
Innuendo Studios - Maybe discontinued, but really really good source for info on how the alt-right “works” and how to fix (particularly American) fascism.
Tech/hacking:
Ben Jordan - Stuff about privacy, police tech, fighting scraping for gen-ai training, etc. Informative.
Marcin Plaza - Hobbyist mobile computing device prototyping. Quite entertaining as well.
James Channel - Fucking hillarious. Mostly game system modding content, but way funnier than that makes him sound.
Satanism:
The Satanic Grotto - A small satanist group based in Kansas that made the national news big time not too long ago holding a “black mass” at the state capitol. I’m just fascinated by all the legal fallout of the whole thing. And… I think the Satanic Grotto is the good guys. “Part of the solution” if you will.
Behemoth X - Just really dark and atmospheric content about rituals to commune with demons. Dude 100% believes demons are real and powerful and he does blood sacrifices to them and talks about what wisdom he claims they’ve shared with him. Also life advice. Lol. Really interesting. Only major downside to the guy: he’s really leaned into using AI art in his videos lately. It’s pretty cringe.
Other creepy stuff:
Tales From The Trip! - Substance use trip reports. Only bad trip reports.
Night Mind - Essays on horror media. Mostly video games and ARGs.
Nexpo - Similar to Night Mind, but occasionally does stories about grisly murders or creepy cults.
blameitonjorge - Similar to the above, but with a lot of focus on lost media.
Nick Crowley - Mostly creepy internet and TV history rabbit holes.
Vidja gaming content:
Summoning Salt: History of speedrun world records. Way more interesting than it sounds.
Pointcrow - Bit of a guilty pleasure. Popular Twitch streamer who does speedruns and challenge runs and stuff. Quite entertaining, but a bit sophmoric.
I’m sure I could think of more if I thought for a bit. I should mention that I don’t usually log in to YouTube. I keep my subscribed-to list in NewPipe on my phone. But I also do a fair amount of just searching by topic or happening across YouTube content on Lemmy or Hackaday.
Quitting Reddit was hard in several ways.
Quitting D&D (because of WotC being assholes) sucked because I was an Eberron/Keith Baker fan and have a lot of money sunk into D&D.
But I don’t know if I could quit YouTube. If that happened, I’d try to find ways to hack my way around it. I might ask my favorite creators to migrate to other platforms. But if I had no options to get their content but to give YouTube my ID, I might honestly have to do it.
Why quit D&D? Whether WotC is stinky or not, it’s just books and resources you can get anywhere… So acquire the books in ways that don’t support WotC and have the best of both worlds, no?
youtube may be the last american tech that i unhook from, there is simply no where else that has so much video content in one place
i don’t understand how france for example stopped 2 big media companies joining for fear of a monopoly while youtube easily gets far more viewers and watch hours than the two of them combined
I’d give YouTube an ID, but never my ID. They probably just have AI checking them to see if they look real enough. As long as it’s a convincing enough photoshop, it’d probably pass the litmus test.
I thought the days of needing a fake ID were decades behind me
Just like mom pants, fake IDs are back on the menu, boys!
Same for me. I’ve been using YouTube for long enough that my over decades curated subscription feed is my primary source of both entertainment and learning, and while I’m successfully degoogling all other aspects of my life, this one will be hard.
I wish Nebula were an alternative, but there’s no way for new creators to start out there the way they can on TikTok or YouTube. And being paywalled, they’d be taking a lot of really important educational information away from public access, essentially restricting themselves to preaching to the choir.
Would Twitch work?? I don’t love these options.
Another thing is youtube’s value isn’t even career creators. Its random people uploading stuff because they thought it’d help someone despite no expectations of any career or monetary compensation.
Im sure lot of us have searched some fix on youtube then been helped by the video posted by a channel where that’s the only video there. So not everyone is looking for a netflix alternative from youtube, but its the encyclopedia of knowledge it offers. I’ve had professor who uploaded their lessons on youtube so people could refer to it.
Who on youtube are you that attached to, out of curiosity? I definitely follow a few creators that would hurt to lose as well, really just looking for recs haha
Well, I guess just to list off who I watch frequently, kinda sorted into categories:
TTRPG:
Just people I have parasocial relarionships with:
Long form deep dive investigative and social commentary stuff:
Tech/hacking:
Satanism:
Other creepy stuff:
Vidja gaming content:
I’m sure I could think of more if I thought for a bit. I should mention that I don’t usually log in to YouTube. I keep my subscribed-to list in NewPipe on my phone. But I also do a fair amount of just searching by topic or happening across YouTube content on Lemmy or Hackaday.