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

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@lil5@social.linux.pizza @Daojoan@mastodon.social Thanks for these links.

In my experience, mojeek can sometimes be good at showing personal sites but it can also show a lot of SEO spam that appears AI generated and there's a lot missing from its index. It's like rolling the dice whether it will have any useful results to a query and I ended up quitting it because it was so unreliable.

Kagi often has low quality results but what you're paying for is the the filtering tools which can help dial things in.

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@miszeleq@mastodon.com.pl @Daojoan@mastodon.social @earthshine@masto.hackers.town Canva had the idea of archiving the Affinity suite forums and moving the community into Discord.

Which is why I'm sticking with v2 and not trusting v3.

Mayday! Mayday! Robot

@Daojoan
"Oh, I remember this video talked about that. Let me just ctrl-F the keyword to find the right part of the video..."

RejZoR

@Daojoan And to make matters worse, there is fuck ton of stupid Ai generated generic slop videos that don't actually fix anything, it's just a generic video to fix some very broad issue and you can find like 15 same videos from different "creators".

Macross マクロス

@Daojoan

it is the WORST, but more on that later! 🤮

Debacle

@Daojoan

I remember, that I had to find a certain function on a device I own.

Explaining where to find it, takes two simple sentences in English, maybe 200 bytes.

The only thing, I found on the net: A multi-minute #video. Megabytes wasted. Let's burn the planet.

Next level: #AI generated #tutorial videos.

Ari [APz] Sovijärvi

@Daojoan I swear I'm constantly running into a theme, were something that's better off as text is made a video and then some complicated disassembly tutorial again is in text form that is so vague most of the time I have no idea what's been referred to, especially when it's put through a machine translator first.

Alice Dubiel 🔬💉🦠😷🌬☮️

@Daojoan You are onto the truth. I love the convenience and art of video/film. However, "educational film and tv" are time consuming and frequently/usually unclear. While I use maps for navigation instead of a list of directions, I much prefer a guide with good clear drawings to a video tutorial. The latter are to keep viewers online while data harvesting. It's the tyranny of the filmmaker to control how viewers are fed information. As kids, we mocked "educational films" as time out.

Kat the Leopardess

@Daojoan Yup. Its something I dislike as well. And I say this as a person who learns well from visuals.

I still feel like that for every tutorial video....there should be an image/text tutorial to accompany it (and those images in the article better have alt tags)

Songbird

@Daojoan
I think that sometimes visualizing helps a lot with guides, but I agree with the fact that those videoguides are ofter filled with useless information and marketing.

The Witch of Crow Briar

@max @Daojoan the avocado generalized cations?

Bootless Buck

@miszeleq @earthshine @Daojoan I don’t know that this is Discord’s fault. It started with the rise of social media, which was the death of classic forums. Social media then abused their position for profit, which drove people to more private options. Since everyone forgot how to run their own service, they tried using whatever SaaS option they were already using to fill the gap. I miss the vBulletin days.

Bootless Buck

@crazyeddie @miszeleq @earthshine @Daojoan Facebook Groups and Reddit where also guilty here.

Patrik

@Daojoan I feel that and I am glad that we convinced a bunch of people to write tutorials: https://oemof-solph.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tutorials.html

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@Professor_Stevens @Daojoan
I understand that specific phenomenon to be a result of plain old recipe instructions not looking "legit" to web search algorithms. Leading with an irrelevant story is an SEO trick to look like a "real" webpage to a computer, even though it drives us actual humans absolutely nuts.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@ghosttie @Daojoan
Videos that are just people reading a webpage to you are some of the most aggravating to me. Dude, if I'm *actually* looking for a video, I'm looking for someone who has new information I can't find in text form, opinions, or at *least* has aggregated multiple sources. I'm not a little kid; I don't need analog text-to-speech.

Tilda Moose, citizen

@Daojoan
Too right. Video guides are only one pillar of (potential) education.

Christopher Duffley

@Daojoan Absolutely! Good God! So sad honestly! I'm glad though that the 100 Days of SwiftUI is still text-based along with the video, but still... I know what you mean!

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@mark_f_lynch @Daojoan
Odd opinion: if education were keeping up with the times, English classes would *absolutely* be replacing their third treatments of basic English grammar and five-paragraph essays with three months of coverage of how to make a good video essay.

Pteryx the Puzzle Secretary

@ftranschel @Npars01 @Daojoan
Not for the ones that are actually embedded into the videos. "Shoutout to today's sponsor..."

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