The worst thing about online learning is that everything has become a video.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@Daojoan it's so goddamn infuriating. And you can't search for info anywhere, because all the support/community is only on discord now

[xenophile@masto.hackers.town]

@Daojoan b-b-b-but some of us want to know how the developers grandmother harvested the bits and crafted them into tuples by hand for every bit of code I have to study

[passenger@kolektiva.social]

@earthshine @Daojoan

When Discord collapses, it's going to take a scary amount of knowledge bases with it.

[slims@famichiki.jp]

@Daojoan it also doesn’t help that people are discouraged to write because LLMs will just swallow it up and use it for themselves.

[earthshine@masto.hackers.town]

@passenger @Daojoan DISCORD. IS. NOT. A. KB. Everything anyone posts there is already ephemeral. May as well have never been posted at all.

[ides_dev@mastodon.social]

@Daojoan oh god I hate this. This ten minute video could have been two or three sentences. I am not going to subscribe to your channel, I only came here to find out how to replace my car headlight bulb - I do not want to be notified when you post more car videos!!

[max@toet.dnzm.nl]

@Daojoan Bonus funsies of your hearing is shit, so you have to rely on the auto-generated captions. Ask me how I know how much fun that is.

[gentlemantech@cyberplace.social]

@Daojoan drives me nuts. I can skim text and pick out the necessary info in seconds, but video takes *forever* even at 3x speed where they sound like rabid chipmunks

[greenvahn@mstdn.games]

@Daojoan Big part of the problem is how they monetize information. A video forces you to "stay", whether 5 mins or less. A text, like others commented here, is more difficult to monetize. I miss the old days of the internet when it was truly about sharing knowledge and info, far away from metrics and clicks

[sophiarose@hachyderm.io]

@Daojoan I had a really annoying one the other day. It was a course that my boss wanted me to do, around the use of AI in video distribution. Anyway, the training website was set up that as soon as the window playing the video lost focus, it would pause!! No clicking on other apps while watching this video on pain of pause.

Naturally, I spent a few minutes reverse engineering the website to extract the video and watch it outside of their crap, so that I was able to do other things whilst the guy wittered on about irrelevant Jira integrations.