You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It’s that simple.
And in a well-written, well-organized article, you can very quickly and easily skip paragraphs or entire sections that aren't relevant to what you're trying to get out of it.
there's been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I'm just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.
ofc it's not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it's just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes
I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I'm in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don't use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn't get.
It's also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I've already lost track of midway.
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don't realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don't know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won't find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
I will totally listen to episodes of many of Simon Whistler's channels at work and not care if I remember the details of some random serial killer's history!
hmm, while I'm doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn't occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
Music has no new information though, that's just for enjoyment. Some of us don't have enough time in a day to do everything we want to do so you gotta hack it lol
I use literally. It's a useful word. If someone complains about a use case of a tool, and that use case is literally the intended use case, it conveys how inappropriate their complaint is.
Literally's absolutely over-used, and usually used wrongly. I think we've lost our collective memory of Valley Girl Dialect -- so grody.
"The ask" and "the spend" are a newer bit of scumbag coke-addled salesman dialect that has crept out into the light. Someone will ask "what was the ask on this?" where they mean to ask what the request or question was. Similarly, salesman use "the spend" in place of "the invoice" or "the budget".
It's like when "do lunch" or "action this" was used unironically.
Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I'm not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Yeah. That's just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don't have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don't have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
Images instead of text for doing something when all of the information can be conveyed through pictures is generally better. Then the person doesn't need to know what the name of a small part is, it doesn't need to be translated, and that is the primary reason this is how they present safety information for things like airplane passengers.
Mart decisions whether to use text, images, and video is important. Literally everything being one of the three is awful.
Just as annoying as the fact i have to watch a fucking 15 minute youtube garbage video with obnoxious musc just to get a tutorial that could have been written into 3 sentences.
While that is an idea that's cool for the fediverse as a whole, it COMPLETELY misses the point of this post. We want to READ the information, not listen to someone trickle feed it to us, peppered with adverts and asides.
YouTube is not the problem here. Some people don't want to listen to some idiot talking. Where is the text, god damn it. I sometimes use AI to turn a video into text because I hate watching videos for information so much.
I hate when the information I'm trying to get is trapped in a video. It's not often that I can't find text alternatives, but it happens on occasion. Being trapped watching a video whose purpose is only partly to deliver information (the other part to game the algo and appease sponsors), when I could have found the info I needed in 30 seconds if it was text -- that's my idea of torture.
One of the very few legitimately game-changing aspects of AI in my life is video summaries.
There used to be a bot that would link to some YouTube frontend whenever a link got posted, but it almost never worked and even when it did it got downvoted constantly
Several times a day, every day. I hate the ones that sucker you in, somehow. I follow the link fully expecting an article, and it's just a video embedded in some site.
But, also the articles that tease the point. It could be two paragraphs, but the writer is apparently paid by the word, so you need to skim two-thirds of the article to get there.
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
That was my first thought, but I think the idea is that a well thought and written article can be a better medium for certain materials than a video on where someone just narrates something and shows slightly unrelated royalty free videos.
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he'll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his "journalism" is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn't make you right on other things.
Hear me out, if you start it from the cover up where the investor and his son's plane explode and the evidence vanishes you can watch the rest to the song "bodies hit the floor". Murders end around the same time the first reports of Epstein surfaced in 94. CIA is tied in.
The Franklin child prostitution ring allegations began in June 1988 in Omaha, Nebraska, when multiple prominent Nebraskan political and business figures were accused of involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. The allegations attracted significant public and political interest until late 1990, when separate state and federal grand juries concluded that the allegations were unfounded and the ring was a "carefully crafted hoax."
I'm as disappointed in you now as your parents must be when you remind them you exist. Seriously, do I need to explain why I'm disappointed? If you can watch the back half of that video and still believe that Wikipedia entry I have a bridge to sell you 😂
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Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 147 pts · 144d
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 52 pts · 144d
All of the above is precisely why I write long winded articles chock-a-block full of pictures and I don't produce video essays.
Well, that and having a face made for radio but a voice made for print may also have something to do with it.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 25 pts · 144d
You can read anywhere from 4x-10x faster than someone can present.
It's that simple.
Add to it, 99% of people completely suck at presenting.
I have siblings who are teachers, and I'm a technical instructor. We work hard to not waste your time.
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 7 pts · 144d
And in a well-written, well-organized article, you can very quickly and easily skip paragraphs or entire sections that aren't relevant to what you're trying to get out of it.
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 144d
there's been a good number of times where I open a link to a news site with a headline that drew me in, and I'm just scrolling around on my phone looking for the article, only to realize after an embarrassingly long time that the video at the top that looks like an ad is the actual content.
ofc it's not entirely my fault, considering how shitty websites have gotten and how poorly structured they are. it's just very difficult to identify the actual content sometimes
Ghostie@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 144d
jim_v@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 144d
Reading an article about a cat playing a keyboard just isn't the same.
cybernihongo@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 144d
I think you perfectly nailed it. When I go to a text article, I'm in charge of how fast or slow I want to take it, I can skip text, and a feature I really don't use much is if the browser has a reading mode, which would remove all the stupid shit crammed into the site like the cookie bar or other things uBlock Origin doesn't get.
It's also that I only need to read. Videos might work with just listening but especially often they need me to also watch the feed. Way more effort so a guy can say things that I've already lost track of midway.
late_list@piefed.zip · 41 pts · 144d
There are dozens of us. Dozens!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 144d
15 dotzens now.
abfarid@startrek.website · 3 pts · 144d
Right now there's only 11 of you.
Beth@piefed.social · 4 pts · 144d
I’ll join!
toynbee@piefed.social · 2 pts · 144d
So, almost dozen?
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 144d
We're almost up to a gross now!
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 4 pts · 144d
Just gross? Tell me when it gets nasty in here, then I'll join in.
abfarid@startrek.website · 3 pts · 144d
Yeah, once they hit 24, the statement is true.
W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 144d
jtrek@startrek.website · 41 pts · 144d
I think a lot of people are only semi-literate, and many of them don't realize it. They just think reading is kind of hard and uncomfortable, and don't know why anyone would choose to do it.
You won't find as many of them on a text-focused medium like here.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 144d
Reading requires attention. YouTube videos you can put on in the background during work or other activities.
jtrek@startrek.website · 27 pts · 144d
I can't imagine why I'd want to put on an informational video and not pay attention.
I listen to music at work.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
Totally agree, if I'm hoping to retain anything.
I will totally listen to episodes of many of Simon Whistler's channels at work and not care if I remember the details of some random serial killer's history!
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
depends on the job: but I think audiobooks and podcasts are generally better for jobs where you don't need your full attention on the job.
thedirtyknapkin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 144d
hmm, while I'm doing menial/mindless tasks i really like educational podcasts and audiobooks. i can pay attention just fine while doing yard work or driving to work. i find music doesn't occupy my mind enough while doing things like that.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 144d
Music has no new information though, that's just for enjoyment. Some of us don't have enough time in a day to do everything we want to do so you gotta hack it lol
mycodesucks@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 144d
I feel like Watching Videos are more entertaining.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · -4 pts · 144d
Search for these strings and let's talk.
blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 144d
I use literally. It's a useful word. If someone complains about a use case of a tool, and that use case is literally the intended use case, it conveys how inappropriate their complaint is.
Never heard of those last two though.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 137d
Literally's absolutely over-used, and usually used wrongly. I think we've lost our collective memory of Valley Girl Dialect -- so grody.
"The ask" and "the spend" are a newer bit of scumbag coke-addled salesman dialect that has crept out into the light. Someone will ask "what was the ask on this?" where they mean to ask what the request or question was. Similarly, salesman use "the spend" in place of "the invoice" or "the budget".
It's like when "do lunch" or "action this" was used unironically.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip · 23 pts · 144d
post literate society gets closer everyday
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 144d
If my client base is any indication it's already here. We are thus as a society, to use the vernacular, most likely cooked.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip · 4 pts · 144d
Hard to disagree based on what I just experienced.
This morning I got some new earbuds. The booklet that came with the earbuds includes no written instructions. Only a short series of pictures to show you how to pair and use them. There is also a QR code to a video.
The pictures were clear and simple to follow. I must admit it was nice not to need to use my reading glasses. I'm not sure how cooked we are though. Mass literacy is a pretty recent development for human society after all.
Kobibi@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 144d
Often things like that are so they don't have to explain it in multiple languages for international markets. Same booklet for everyone!
OwOarchist@pawb.social · 3 pts · 144d
Yeah. That's just them saving money on translation and printing. Now they don't have to pay for translators to every language they sell to, and they don't have to print different instruction booklets for every language (or print a super-long instruction booklet that repeats the same instructions in 10 different languages).
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 144d
Providing information is contextual.
Images instead of text for doing something when all of the information can be conveyed through pictures is generally better. Then the person doesn't need to know what the name of a small part is, it doesn't need to be translated, and that is the primary reason this is how they present safety information for things like airplane passengers.
Mart decisions whether to use text, images, and video is important. Literally everything being one of the three is awful.
Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe · 4 pts · 144d
Or simply divided between the literate and illiterate.
The Time Machine comes to mind.
YaksDC@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
I was thinking Fahrenheit 451. Written text is outlawed, everything is conveyed through images.
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 1 pts · 144d
Excuse me, can you stop use big word please thx
OpenStars@piefed.social · 3 pts · 144d
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
Apparently the general population has an understanding of written/spoken language at about the 6th grade level...
What if the recent push back into feudalism works too well and we get the "dark ages" all over again.... lol...
hansolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 144d
Well hey, that's improved over 40 years ago. USA Today famously wrote to a 4th grade reading level.
But yeah, second dark ages is for real happening all around us.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
All the apps are orchestrated social engineering to separate us from one another, making us easier to divide/manipulate
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
No "lol", this is not the place to laugh aloud.
brownsugga@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d
Lmao
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 144d
And if it's an X link I take a little detour to block the poster as well.
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
I copy the url and replace the domain part with xcancel.com
Trihilis@ani.social · 12 pts · 144d
Just as annoying as the fact i have to watch a fucking 15 minute youtube garbage video with obnoxious musc just to get a tutorial that could have been written into 3 sentences.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 144d
That's what the "most rewatched" graph on the scrubber is for.
Angrydeuce@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d
Dude never would I ever have dreamed I'd yearn for the days of 2 minute videos with notepad being used to communicate but here we are.
Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 144d
BANDICAM AND NOTE PAD YEEEEE BUDDY
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 144d
Lemmy plugin idea: when someone posts a YouTube link, the server copies the video to peertube instead.
Or maybe we could build that into the client to save server resources.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 144d
While that is an idea that's cool for the fediverse as a whole, it COMPLETELY misses the point of this post. We want to READ the information, not listen to someone trickle feed it to us, peppered with adverts and asides.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 30 pts · 144d
YouTube is not the problem here. Some people don't want to listen to some idiot talking. Where is the text, god damn it. I sometimes use AI to turn a video into text because I hate watching videos for information so much.
punchmesan@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 144d
I hate when the information I'm trying to get is trapped in a video. It's not often that I can't find text alternatives, but it happens on occasion. Being trapped watching a video whose purpose is only partly to deliver information (the other part to game the algo and appease sponsors), when I could have found the info I needed in 30 seconds if it was text -- that's my idea of torture.
One of the very few legitimately game-changing aspects of AI in my life is video summaries.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d
I'd love a bot for that
BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 144d
There used to be a bot that would link to some YouTube frontend whenever a link got posted, but it almost never worked and even when it did it got downvoted constantly
tackleberry@thelemmy.club · 7 pts · 144d
There are some information that are best transmitted via video, some through audio, and others by text.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 144d
Yes. And peertube is still a work in progress.
But even among the proprietary video platforms, YouTube is the worst, lately.
YouTube used to be the only one with any kind of stream resilience, but that's long solved.
I prefer to stick to anything that doesn't now spend billions to make the experience worse, at least.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 144d
Several times a day, every day. I hate the ones that sucker you in, somehow. I follow the link fully expecting an article, and it's just a video embedded in some site.
But, also the articles that tease the point. It could be two paragraphs, but the writer is apparently paid by the word, so you need to skim two-thirds of the article to get there.
banshee@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 144d
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 144d
Heise (german IT newspaper) posts transcriptions of their Tech Talk videos. They are usually multiple times as long (and more winded) than any article of them.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 5 pts · 144d
Unpopular opinion I know, but I don't hate YouTube.
Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 144d
I don't either, but the chances of me being interested in watching the video being posted are close to zero.
snooggums@piefed.world · 4 pts · 144d
If there is a brief summary of what is in the video, especially a mention of the timestamp where the real info is, then I might click on the link.
Agrivar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 144d
Amen.
null@lemmy.org · 4 pts · 144d
Yeah dude, you should absolutely believe this thing I'm saying. I even have a source. [two hour video from some youtuber]
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 144d
Just change YouTube to yewtu.be
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 7 pts · 144d
That was my first thought, but I think the idea is that a well thought and written article can be a better medium for certain materials than a video on where someone just narrates something and shows slightly unrelated royalty free videos.
Venat0r@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 144d
could use the ask button for the citations the video is using and read those, or sometimes they're linked in the description
Mwa@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 144d
Or find a repost.
ieGod@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 144d
Me anytime someone links a gamers nexus entry.
how_we_burned@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 144d
Holy shit is GN boring. Without fail he'll make me fall asleep whilst he repeats his points over and over. And some of his "journalism" is so rough I just want to shake him and make him go back to school.
Repeating the same single points over and over does make your case and sure you might be right on some stuff using this technique but it doesn't make you right on other things.
redsand@infosec.pub · -5 pts · 144d
https://youtu.be/a2lvo38u4ds
Hear me out, if you start it from the cover up where the investor and his son's plane explode and the evidence vanishes you can watch the rest to the song "bodies hit the floor". Murders end around the same time the first reports of Epstein surfaced in 94. CIA is tied in.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 144d
Franklin child prostitution ring allegations
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_child_prostitution_ring_allegations
redsand@infosec.pub · -1 pts · 144d
I'm as disappointed in you now as your parents must be when you remind them you exist. Seriously, do I need to explain why I'm disappointed? If you can watch the back half of that video and still believe that Wikipedia entry I have a bridge to sell you 😂
Alisha Owens makes total sense 🤣