I get that lots of people are here because they’re against modern trends in Internet applications. But can we stop with the constant complaints of the exact same issues every single day? It’s frustrating. You’re preaching to the choir and saying nothing original.
The irony is thatthe YouTube algorithm thinks that’s what they want to see based on their viewing history…
My feed is usually pretty rad. I love that they’re adding more small channels to mix, I found a great one the other day that way (Ideal Idea). The only thing I really hate and can’t get rid of is Shorts
If you don’t like a suggestion, click the dots and pick Not Interested or Don’t Recommend This Channel. It’s easy.
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The YouTube algorithm is garbage. More than once it’s just completely removed channels I watch pretty much daily from my suggestions. The not interested filter is woefully inadequate as they have no idea what the actual reason for disinterest was. I still get 100 flavors of lofi videos in my suggestions despite flagging every single one. YouTube’s interpretation of that? Remove all other forms of music.
At the end of the day if the average user cared they wouldn’t be able to get away with it.
Most people just don’t give a shit. They just want to watch videos without paying.
Most of us are just to tired at the end of the day to do anything. Paying bills, barely affording rent or food, and being stuck in a shit job. Not to mention a commute that sucks 2 hours out of our lives everyday.
This is why I feel nothing ever changes in north america, people become complacent in everything thats around them and can be improved upon.
If only people would get angry and organize, but I get it we are all tired working 9-5 everyday with long commutes and paying to much for everything. At the end of the day we just want to sit down and switch off.
YouTube is so bad. The click driven internet needs to die. There should just be a publicly funded video host with a basic web functionality and an API so third party devs can use it.
I never understood why „video-podcasts“ never cought on. Everybody would host their own videos or provides peer-to-peer links and it can be presented basically like a YouTube feed in compatible apps.
As a cherry on top, a compatible app could also support YouTube and download videos from there liked piped or invidious.
PeerTube has some major drawbacks. Namely that every other ActivityPub takes a blacklist approach, where every PeerTube instance I’ve seen takes a whitelist approach. So if you actually want to discover creators, or to be discovered, it makes what is already a daunting task, next to impossible.
Privacy nightmares aside… So many social media platforms and similar sites have gone way beyond their original scope.
Instagram is the biggest tragedy for me personally because I was a very early user of it. It used to be a fairly niche iPhone app where people shared their own amateur photography and art. It was interesting and fun. Ever since Facebook bought it, it’s become a cesspit of ads, politics, thirst traps, spam, bait posts, shitty memes, narcissism, and general low quality content. It also has stupid stories and reels and has just become overcomplicated, trying to cover so many bases.
It’s depressingly hollow to look at these days.
Yup, there have been countless attempts to paywall creator content but they always flop. The closest we have right now is offering video content through Patreon subscriptions, but creators know they can’t put their main content there because it would destroy their platform
grayjay is a pretty good app
This right here is why I’ll never subscribe to Premium. The app sucks. The algorithm suggests me the same shitty Mr.Beast videos over and over, along with videos I watched for 8 seconds 12 years ago. Shorts suck. I don’t want to watch podcasts on my video app. I don’t want to watch livestreams ever. And I have control over none of it. And that’s the way they like it.
