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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.
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?
The real heros are the creators who blog their scripts and link them in the description of the video 🥹you da real mvp
youre on it, lemmy and there's also kbin
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.
Medium.com is probably the place you are looking for.
tildes.net might be what you're looking for. It's a lot like kbin/lemmy but no picture or video posts, almost entirely just text.
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.
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?
Substack
If it's for DIY, home repair, and the like, wikiHow is decent.
There is no single such site, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Depending on what you're interested in, there are a lot of websites with long-form written content, like newspapers, tech blogs etc. You could create an RSS feed with all the websites that interested you if you want everything in one place.