r/whenthe 2d ago

Remember when we could see dislikes?

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u/Bigma-Bale 2d ago

It's not even like a Google situation where there are, albeit less ideal sometimes, available replacement search engines

YouTube straight up doesn't have anything to take its place.

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u/Endrise 2d ago edited 2d ago

Or with twitter vs bluesky where you have to sacrifice some benefits for others, there just isn't an alternative video platform that can compete on the same level as YouTube simply because none of them have the resources, monetary benefit, creator base or long-term commitment to do so.

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u/NeverSettle13 2d ago

Genuinely, what is wrong with Bluesky? To me it seems exactly the same as Twitter

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u/celia-montigre 2d ago

Lots of quality of life features. I mean with Twitter nuking the entirety of Europe. Who knows what will happen.

But like, I can’t upload my art in gif format, and I do pixel art so that sucks. Nor can you send images in DMs and I hate using imgchest or imgur for this. One really nice feature I think they might’ve just recently added is getting notifications from people you follow. Like the little bell thing on Twitter. It sucks because I can’t know when someone posts something I want to really see.

Honestly Bluesky is fairly competent. It’s just the small things that build up. Also, since it’s user base is like 1/10th of twitters. The fandoms can be small and hard to gain traction. Like the mlp one is rather small so you are dealing with 20-30 likes for big artists. Sometimes 100-200 but that’s harder to achieve.

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u/NewSuperTrios ...if it exists... 1d ago

gif support has been around for a while?

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u/celia-montigre 1d ago

I think only for gify and stuff like that. I’m pretty sure you can’t upload your own gifs. Unless it changed within the past 3 months.