If I may offer a new way to think about things - YouTube ads support creators by allowing them to make a living making their videos. It’s quite different than Facebook, Instagram, and Reddit, where a company is just hosting and monetizing people discussing and sharing things with each other. If you want to see good content, YouTube decentralized alternatives will really only take off if there is some sort of crowd funding going to creators. Which would most likely take the form of a subscription. And…that is essentially YouTube premium anyway. And I might add that I’ve had YouTube premium for years and it’s my favorite subscription I have across the entire internet.

Upvoting on Mlem on Lemmy.world!

And yet Apollo was made by one guy and it’s far better than anything Reddit made

Is it possible to require an authentication app or something to make an account? Require a specific score on a flash game like snake? Or is that stupid? I don’t know, I’m not a dev ¯_(ツ)_/¯

the interface is just so clean. it feels like early internet and I love it.