What if it had auto-translation on?
I had this issue a few times. If you watch a video in another language than what you have set in your settings, YouTube will now auto AI translate with a voiceover. It sounds horrible and is very annoying. It’s YouTube fault though, and not the creators’.
I watched a great video the other day with ai voice, but the creator had a disclaimer at the start saying (in his natural voice) that he thought his accent was too strong for people.
All the comments (barring a few chuds) were people encouraging him to just use his natural voice as it was perfectly understandable and the AI voice was quite jarring in comparison.
So yeah even as an accessibility tool, I think people just find natural voices more trustworthy.
Read more, watch fewer videos. Bonus: books cannot contain unskippable ads.
books cannot contain unskippable ads
Ready Player One might disagree
ai;dr
Come to nebula.
No AI voices there.But some categories are completely devoid of content because its an invite only platform
For the creators?
Yes. Viewers are open signup.
Yes, that’s how you keep AI slop out.
Suit yourself but I think it makes Nebula have better quality. It’s quality over quantity.
I didn’t have an invite i just joined through Jacob Geller’s YouTube channel
Invite for the creators.
That makes sense
I have been on the edge for a while now, I’ll probably end up at least trying it after my vacation. Do you really think it’s worth the subscription price?
I got it, then saw that its app sucked, then stopped using it for months despite having a valid subscription, then found the Gray Jay app, then found that I can queue all my videos together seamlessly in an excellent player and now slowly I’m watching more and more Nebula content and cutting out more and more YouTube content.
Nebula has a lot of stuff I like (long form, deep dive, factual, analytic videos). Now that my videos across platforms can be in one place, its easier to accept the more limited selection on Nebula. As I find more stuff on Nebula and unsubscribe from more stuff on YouTube, my whole video stream diet is getting better and better. The value of Nebula is slowly increasing for me. I wouldn’t have continued at all or renewed my subscription if I was using their default app and going between multiple apps for my video streams; and if that was the case it had been much easier for me to stick with YouTube and Newpipe app.
Depends what you want out of it.
I’m not aware of any content on nebula that isn’t also on YouTube.
So if you’re happy with the YouTube experience, probably not.I joined when Tom Scott started posting his new videos there one week earlier than YouTube, and offered a discount code for 50% off for the first year.
1 year for the price of three drinks at a bar is worth it to me.I was sick of clicking on an interesting-looking video in the YT feed that turned out to be AI slop or rage bait.
And the autoplay of the next video the algorithm chooses annoyed me, too. YT was also the last Google service I still used, so ditching it felt good.
Plus, my favorite creator Real Time History thanks people watching on nebula at the end of each video, saying “We couldn’t do it without you”, which makes me all fuzzy inside.Yeah, I think YouTube will be the last Google service I let go also, a lot of content I enjoy is the exclusively there as far as I know. But I have also decided to get rid of Google, meta and such as thoroughly as I can, so I do hope some combination of nebula, peertube and/or whatever else google free I can find will suffice. I am mostly annoyed by the similar things you were when it comes to yt. Thanks for the Tom Scott shoutout, I wasn’t aware he started making new stuff. You’d think YouTube algorithms would let me know lol.
There’s a lot of content that’s just on nebula not YouTube, but it’s mostly long form stuff. There’s a whole section at the top titled “Only on Nebula”.
Pretty impressed they offer a lifetime
To me it’s definitely worth it. Many of my favorite creators are already on there. I get exclusives and early releases, high definition, and no ads. And the nice fuzzy feeling of knowing that my views result in the creator receiving some actual money.
I still use YouTube quite a lot… But I find that I’m using Nebula more and more as time goes by.
Alright, thanks for taking the time to comment. As I said, I’m pretty much already going to give it a go, but hearing people’s thoughts on it is appreciated. The thing about actually knowing you’re contributing to paying the people whose content you like does sound appealing.
Do you watch a lot of YouTube and at least a few are saying they are on Nebula? Then absolutely
Or means.tv, a creator owned platform.
That looks just like nebula (also a creator-owned platform), but with exclusively communist content.
Can’t say, never tried it, just know that it’s creator owned and doesn’t have any AI voiced content.
Is nebula not a subscription only platform?
Yes. But also entirely ad-free, and with lots of quality creators. And it’s quite a bit cheaper than pretty much any other streaming service.
I wasn’t criticizing, just checking to make sure I had the right one. I can’t really afford to do even more subscriptions, but maybe one day if I ever get back into the ‘youtube style thing’ in the future.
Do you also need an invite?
No need for an invite. Creators need to be invited to join the platform. So not just anyone can post their content there. A thing missing from Nebula is gaming content, like gameplays, etc., but it’s a curated list of creators that put out generally quality stuff.
I paid for the lifetime subscription assuming it’s been around for like 3 years, I reckon it’ll be around 3 more and I don’t want to deal with another monthly sub. I really like Jet Lag, I find it just the right amount of neurodivergent fun and competitive and chill. I also watch channels like Wendover, Not Just Bikes, and Real Life Lore. They are all on Nebula and I assume my sub is somehow divided up equitably, although I haven’t looked into it. I also hope some of the money I paid goes to people who I haven’t heard of or watched yet but I might like to watch in the future.
Is it better than YouTube…no. But it doesn’t have to be, it is serving a different use case. I know when I open Nebula that I’ll find something worth watching with no slop and a lot less money going to multinational corporations. They still have servers that need hosting so some money has to go to corporations but I’m not paying a trillion dollar company directly which feels nice.
Expect it’s a empty devoid worthless cuck club of invite only nothingness.
There’s literally no upside to the concept.
Nebula is very US-centric in content, payment and organisation. I would love a more international approach.
What is nebula? Is it better or worse than yt?
why would i bother watching something no one bothered to make?
ill go ask the ai myself, thanks.
Search for information. Get reddit with a mix of bot posts and a long list of Ai generated sites that don’t even make sense.
See link with interesting title.
Look at actual domain, if it’s *tube/invidious immediately skip over link.
Click, see it’s loading (any) video site.
Immediately close page.
Skipping some steps here, usually fast enough that you don’t even have to hear voice.
If you won’t write it out in text, it’s not worth receiving the information.
My great grandpa used to call me chicken cock Santa until I asked him to stop and then he just stopped.
Ok, I’ll be the one to ask. Why?
Because he understood that I didn’t like it and respected my wishes to not be called that
I think you’re kind of burying the lede here brah.
Yep, every time.
what do you do however when the voices in your head become ai
- See an intriguing video
- Open channel
- 4 videos a week, each around 20-30 minutes of duration
- Channel created after 2022
- Do not recommend this channel
In a better world this would be caught by analytics and videos like that would be penalised - like it should happen for web search results. In reality we’re far from that unfortunately…
Core Dumped has very interesting videos and hte author doesn’t use his own voice. So no, i won’t skip.
Most content though… yeah, pretty skippable.Yeah sometimes I get it. The author doesn’t like their own voice, English isn’t their first language, or they’re trying to offer their video in multiple different languages. Usually you have to watch it for a bit to pick up on whether it was written by AI or not. Like someone else mentioned in this thread, it’s good to look at the frequency of video uploads for the channel and if they’re doing 20 to 30 minute videos everyday or at a pace that one would consider a breakneck speed for a human, you know it’s AI bullshit.
Yea but it’s an indicator or overall lack of polish. Not always, but it’s likely
The worse is comparison videos which are fully generated automatically
Click Dislike, Close it, Click “do not recommend channel”
Don’t dislike. Engagement promotes the video. Comments, likes, subs, shares, and dislikes all tell the algorithm to promote the video.
Shame youtube removed the like/dislike ratio which we previously used for mass protest against video authors for their wrongdoings. Channels can now shovel shit onto us with no public humiliation inflicted on them in return.
Don’t click dislike, it does nothing except promote the channel.
Gets it out of the way of my recommends. I particularly like the way it recommends videos in channels I’m already subscribed to. No, wait. I hate that.
That’s very funny cause I’m watching jack and z8 right now. I do wonder if it’s above a certain rate though. He should make a video that tells people born in the first half of the year to upvote and the second half to downvote. See what happens then. Or first three months, last 9 etc.
