I’m someone who just much prefers reading to watching YouTube — I like being able to go at my pace.

So I was wondering if anyone here knows of any kind of website or app which has long form written content about interesting topics. Thank you! :)

  • stephfinitely
    37•1 year ago

    I unfortunatly don’t have a awnser but wanted to add I hate how all tech help has moved to video form. Written tutorials have then benefit of being clear and able to follow at your own pace.

    • @[email protected]
      7•1 year ago

      Yeah this bugs me too. However, sometimes the key is scrolling farther down the search results. Google likes to put YouTube video results first but sometimes you can find the written instructions on a non google owned blog post past the videos.

      Also, Bing (I know, I know) will break down the video and sometimes link you directly to the part of the video you need.

      At least you can try asking ChatGPT now?

      • deejay4amEnglish
        2•1 year ago

        The real heros are the creators who blog their scripts and link them in the description of the video 🥹you da real mvp

    • @Cjwi
      4•1 year ago

      Yes! Also being able to read/explore while doing other tasks like in a work meeting or on a discord call. It doesn’t require you to devote 100% of your attention.

  • @kava
    34•1 year ago

    You’re looking for blogs. Get an RSS reader and subscribe to blogs. Also, of course like others are saying, books.

    I recommend buying the $100 Kindle with e-ink (or any other e-ink reader) and downloading all your books off of libgen.rs

    It’s a one time investment of $100 but you get free books forever.

    • gabe [he/him]
      18•1 year ago

      If you have a local library, please use that as well. Especially if they have a digital library catalog.

  • @DangerPanda
    10•1 year ago

    I’m not sure exactly what you’re after, but what about Wikipedia?

    Easy to go down a rabbit whole reading on lots of interesting topics.

  • @SomeoneElse
    5•1 year ago

    I started a community !downtherabbithole for this kinda thing but written content isn’t as easy to find as videos unfortunately. I’m like you and much prefer reading to watching. There’s at least one text link there that’s an interesting read. I think there’s a long-form community on lemmy too, that might scratch an itch?

  • @[email protected]
    3•1 year ago

    What you’re looking for seems to be blogs. Before YouTube made “vlogging” (video blogging) widespread, many people blogged with text. There’s still tons of useful/entertaining blogs out there depending on your interests.

    There’s sites like Medium (https://medium.com) which is a fairly popular centralized service. There’s even Fediverse instanced communities based on software like WriteFreely (https://writefreely.org/instances). Many just have independent blogs around the web, though.