Some of that is from management being strict about following the procedures we have to make sure every step is followed or we get in trouble so even if someone seems knowledgable we have to treat them like they aren't

as a former tech support person I think the reason why its usually like that is that most of the people who call in are people don't know how to use a computer at least it was for the company I worked at

Yea I was annoyed that they were making me sign up for google+ for my youtube account so I never tried it I just set it up so I could keep using youtube.

try following hashtags

and then if you suggest they try mastodon they won't even consider it

They made the admins sign nda's so its unlikely we will hear anything about it

I don't expect my data to be fully deleted in a centralized system either. even if it was deleted from the central server someone might have mad an archive of it

and reddit is defiantly guilty of this since they were bringing back peoples deleted comments and accounts

I feel like the problem with moving away from youtube is that the larger chanels making money off of it arent going to want to move because they wont get monitized if they do. If they do move it will probably be to another corperate platform.

I really dont like what youtube is planning on doing by restricting adblockers and adding more unskippable ads though. Hopefully that moves at least some people to peertube.

when I worked at walmart some people would get so offended if I suggested wearing the opposite genders clothes even if the item was basically the same for males and females.

a polo shirt for men is cheaper and you're probably just wearing it because of your workplace why does it matter?

please can youtube be next?

I really want to stop using my google account and that's the only thing keeping me from moving away from it.