yay now you have to watch the whole video to tell if it's a scam/troll/shitty tutorial, at least capeshit movie trailers won't be downvoted anymore
Hexbear out here inventing shit and then YouTube tries to pass this off as NOT stealing honey from mama Hexbear. It makes me mad. We're the ones on the cutting edge, and comrades, only the revolution will free us of this revisionism.
Fuck, that sucks. I remember when Youtube used to show you the number of stars a video had in the thumbnail back when they had stars. You didn't even have to click on a video to know it was bad and not worth your time.
Now we're all gonna have to sit through clickbait, scams, screamers, just generally bad videos every single time.
There is so much useful information on Youtube that it's basically impossible. You can stop watching Youtube for entertainment, sure. But it'd be terrible to give up all of the tutorial videos, educational videos, technical videos, etc. For that there is basically no replacement.
This consolidation of the entire internet into just a few websites has really ruined something that used to be a treasure. Now a giant portion of the collective public consciousness is at the mercy of a few companies.
Just another example of how capitalism can't even deliver on its main promise that competition drives innovation. Under capitalism competition is like entropy. It can only trend down as the wealth concentrates into the hands of a few major companies and monopolies form.
Edit: I realize entropy trends up. you get what I mean, though
I only watch people I follow, so I always know what I'm going to get, I've never wandered on youtube because it's shit
Kinda that downbears make people feel bad, and initially some patterns in them to our :cat-trans: comrades
Numbers (and writing) were likely invented to keep track of tax collection in ancient societies, likely by scribes at the time. Literally a bourgeois invention to keep down the proletariat.
thinking about that earliest known bit of writing that's like some guy complaining about the quality of a copper shipment or something
“I am not getting water for my sesame field. The sesame will die. Don’t tell me later, ‘You did not write to me.’ The sesame is visibly dying. Ibbi-Ilabrat saw it. That sesame will die, and I have warned you.”
It's so funny that mathematics, literature, and poetry are all very beautiful fields, and they might not exist if some rich guy didn't need to keep track of who owed him money.
This but unironically. https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/john-zerzan-number-its-origin-and-evolution
tough shit for anyone looking for tutorials, i guess :sadness: google is a disaster when it comes to consistent design
Most of the "how-tos" I've searched on Google pointed me (on the entire first page of results) to shitty ad-infested sites that are just advertisements themselves for some awful product. Google has made the internet infinitely worse.
When Youtube took action on the Elsagate shit a while ago they disabled comments on all videos that were tagged as for kids. And generally that was a good move.
But as a side effect, pretty much any clip from any cartoon on Youtube also has comments disabled. Even cartoons that are decades old and not currently airing. And that really sucked because every once in a while I'd like to go and watch some of those for nostalgia and reading the comments was the best part.
you know what sucks the most, in my opinion? it's not that we won't get to see if it's a shitty video straight away, or if the chuds are brigading it or anything like that... it's just the fact that this is 100% going to somehow change online discourse, and who the fuck knows how
it's like they're just pulling levers in this giant radicalization machine, and all we can do is hope that this doesn't have the same shitty consequences as their long tail thought bubble algorithm bullshit
Absolutely, I think one the big obstacle for many leftists creators is the fear of chuds brigading their vids. Now with the dislike invincible not only it would help their self esteem, it'll also allow them to freely purge the comment section.
The filter-bubble is a term used for the way the content you consume online is used to tailor the content directed at you, especially by large entities like Google and Facebook and Amazon. It magnifies biases in feedback loops, creates sortitions of people online, and even leads to the point where two people can find completely conflicting things from the same search query, based on how the algorithm analyzes you.
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser is a very good read. It lays out many social dynamics of the Web today, including advertising and social media and third-party tracking.
honestly, I'm just tossing random algorithm marketing buzzwords around to make a point of how this is all techbro mumbo jumbo, but despite my dislike for the NYT, there's some interesting stuff about right wing radicalization in their rabbit hole podcast, you might want to check it out: https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
Just realized this is going to become the reason they eventually remove comments. On every bad video, the top comment will become: "Like this comment to dislike the video"
I suppose it's easy enough to just disable comments on movie trailers and other stuff they don't want people to mass dislike. But they already had the option to disable the like system on individual videos.
Would they do that though? We know these companies prize engagement above all else, and I can't be the only one who probably spends as much time reading YT comments as I do actually watching videos.
Then again, I suppose YT comments aren't tied to advertising so maybe they don't give a shit about how much people engage with them...
I dunno, it doesn't seem like dislikes really did anything to make youtube suck any less, so whatever. Disliking videos literally just boosted their engagement and place in the algorithm. Youtube will always suck so long as it is the definitive place for videos and so long as it is run on a for-profit model.
I kind of like it, 90% of all dislikes are chuds being upset that a dark skinned person exists
is it only for specific videos? or maybe they are rolling it out, i still have them it seems
I personally think a rating system (like you see for products) would be better than likes and dislikes.
Youtube used to have a 5 star rating system which they scrapped in 2010.
Don't worry, with the rate of change for google product UIs we will see it again.
People never agree on what different ratings mean and usually people just vote the max or the minimum anyway
Hexbear also has good strict moderation though. YouTube very much doesn't.
