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I'm sorry for youtube-addicted. On my part, I use it, maybe, twice per year, so I couldn't care less.
I want to abandon the shit platform but its just so nice like in my lunch breaks at work or just after work, whack on some YouTube, and I can watch gaming, I can watch tech, I can watch really niche tech, I can watch people fixing cars, I can watch an Aussie dude fuck around with his nuggets, like these people are genuinely interesting and make genuinely good content, but there's no decentralized or otherwise separate YouTube-like platform they upload to elsewhere.
Sure, Nebula has thought provoking videos, Floatplane has a few, Odysee has a few more but there'll be that niche YouTuber who does videos on vintage Macs that I'm in the mood for, and back onto YouTube I go.
It's scarily difficult to get off it. I want to, and maybe I will if things get so shit it's borderline unusable, but I think Google knows how to boil the frog and unfortunately that's the reality of it all.
I envy you not having YouTube as something you don't use often. YouTube was genuinely at least a decent platform over 10 years ago when I joined it, and I've been hooked on it since, every single shit change they make.
I think I'm lucky enough for being born in the '70s and there were less things to which become addicted. In my case, they were (and still are) books. If you really feel like leaving YT, you may just look for books on topics of interest...
Me using youtube daily, to learn things (I enjoy engineering and educational content) I also use it to sleep with the help of ASMR
Ads during ASMR is going to ruin it, good thing ReVanced exists