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1. Santiago (santiago@mastodon.uy)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 01:45:45 UTC Santiago

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   • Tio (tio@social.trom.tf)'s status on Sunday, 23-Oct-2022 01:45:46 UTC Tio
     A few things I noticed now that I make a documentary and rely on footage from the world-wide-web:

     • Vertical videos destroyed the video format. I find it difficult to find proper videos documenting, say, natural events. Or any kind of events. It is awful. Unusable mostly. Floods? Hurricanes? How the fuck can you tell the impact when you film vertically? No way.
     • Internet searches suck! Google, DDG, SearX, Youtube, Twitter, you name it....they always push for non-relevant yet popular results, instead of relevant ones. Last night I was searching for the first United Nations Climate Change conference. I wanted footage from there. No way to find it on Youtube. It is the 1995: COP 1, Berlin, Germany. I searched for an hour. I finally came across, via other searches, to the Associated Press YTB channel and there I could find something....
     • Important videos or content is very unpopular. I was looking at some of the important UN video announcements of years of work about climate change. They make them straight to the point....and have a few thousand views, or hundreds....

     The internet is a bazar, I keep on saying that. You have to find your way through this mess, and since it is clustered around 5 or so big companies (farts) then everyone only gets to smell that kind of filthy Internet. I do not think most people do searches nowadays, about some weird, interesting things. Just use fb, youtube, and the like...let them manage your life...
     
     Sucks...
     
     But well, I created an alternative universe for myself via our TROM tools, via RSS, and the like.