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A really simple and effective solution is walking. It can not be overstated how helpful a couple short walks a day can help. You’ll get the added bonus of fresh air, vitamin D and an opportunity to reset your brain. Quick and easy.
Perhaps, or perhaps it will be like Lemmy/kbin where people are reinvigorated to create simply for the pleasure of creating, whereas they only preciously scrolled anonymously. You may not remember, but there was a time where YouTube was new, you were not making any money from your videos and yet people made all sorts of things. There was also Newgrounds and eBaum’s World and I’m sure a few others I forgot.
Sure, if they gained traction, they’d make a business out of it, but there was no algorithm to worry about or analytics to monitor. The current corporate options are far from the only possible solution and it will fade in time just like everything else has.
I have confidence it’ll get there someday. Remember that YouTube started out as a small, unknown service in the days before ubiquitous cloud computing and storage providers. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
To be fair TBP has been going through a period of being filled with unsafe files and spam users. They’re only just now starting to open it back up again. Hasn’t been a top reputable choice for some time.