Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Are you "google free" ?

This means you don't use google search, youTube, gmail and do not have a google account or email.

@u0421793

You still can use playlists and other features on the TV.

But on a TV I can't find a way to block "mid roll" ads. Though if you pay it will block most of the interrupting ads.

@chessert @billiglarper

I think there must be.

I have to have google cookies for my job so I don't have that firewall up for better or worse.

@billiglarper @chessert

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

@coracinho@sunbeam.city Yeah, a lot of people on here probably have google locked out in ways that might keep them from using this. And good for you honestly. To have "nice things" we need to keep on building our own systems and giving money to the people doing that work. It's a LOT of work and we don't really support it enough at this time.

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

@coracinho

Yeah, a lot of people on here probably have google locked out in ways that might keep them from using this.

And good for you honestly.

To have "nice things" we need to keep on building our own systems and giving money to the people doing that work.

It's a LOT of work and we don't really support it enough at this time.

This shared playlist feature will help me get my dad watching better media. I can set up a list for him and my mom and stack up things I want them to see instead of texting a link to him.

(My dad loves youTube but watches it on a TV ... so the interface is horrible, this means he ends up watching nonsense sometimes.)

This is awesome.

@chessert

This is what I do too. But advertisers needs still shape the content to some degree and it also has an impact on what youTube focuses on in terms of user interface.

Tools that promote content based on what you care about or what your friends care about are kind of neglected and clunky.

For example: it's hard to add a video to a shared playlist when you are watching it. The shared playlist is basically... secret.

The app guides you to just watching algorithm picks.

OK I was wrong. This feature is six years old. But, I remember looking for it. I discovered it because when you add videos to playlist it now asks you if you want to "collaborate" this makes a list with an invite link you can post.

Sometimes I think about how much better social media and media sharing software could be in a world without advertisers or raw watch time driving everything.

To be clear I think the ultimate goal must be leaving youTube behind. This isn't easy.

And while we extricate ourselves from these systems why not use this tool that is one of the most "user centered" things youTube has done in a long time?

OMG

This shared playlist feature also lets everyone up and downvote the videos so it can build a better consensus.

I've always thought youTube didn't do enough with community and collaborative features. I assumed this was because such features didn't make people watch longer and view more ads.

But someone over there tried to make something useful for once.

YouTube has quietly added a feature where multiple people can add videos to the same playlist. I've always wanted something like this built into the app.

Here is the invite. Add any videos you actually watch today that you don't mind sharing.

Sadly you must be logged in to youTube to do this.

Will this be a mess? Let's see!

(I've always wanted a recommended video feature that was based on what people I knew *actually watched* to create a shared media library.)

So. Since pennies are out of circulation does that make my father in law's big water cooler jugs of pennies "coin hoards" in the archeological sense?

People think coin hoards are strange, but I bet you know someone with one right now.

@SRLevine

Now we're talking!

@nazokiyoubinbou

What.

If you had a matter synthesizer, that could make realistic rocks of any possible description and you wanted to prank a geologist into silence what would you ask it to print?

It WILL fool them even if they test it.

Why am I asking?

Oh... no reason.

@catsalad

Did you live?

@ai6yr @CStamp @octothorpe @mattsheffield

This is like that fertility company that was marketing around the city with some kind of eugenics sounding nonsense.

They want everyone to have to discus this.

I don't think it worked for the fertility company. Will it work for these guys? IDK.

@shippychaos

I remember some kid at school trying to trade me like 10 AOL discs for one of the video games I'd burned saying "but this is like 10,000 hours of internet!

@faithisleaping

I just makes me think of confused grandpas in best buy.