- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- memes@lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48672875
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Do what I do, stop liking the videos. If they won’t count the downvotes, don’t contribute to the upvotes.
Instructions unclear, moved to Newpipe/PipePipe and SmartTube.
also LibreTube/Flux/Tubular/FreeTube/Clipious and FreeTube Desktop and Clipious for Android TV and Playlet for Roku (get rid of your roku) and Yattee for every iOS device
theres grayjay too if you dont mind ethically dubious software
For a long time after they removed the 5 star system, if you subscribed to a channel via RSS, it would show you the like/dislike data for videos as a 5 star rating. You can’t see it easily any more but I suspect, due to tech debt, youtube’s internals are still using the 5 star rating.
That’s really fucking funny if that’s true! And knowing tech debt, it might very well be!
The biggest loss here was the neutral Futurama video being unable to be balanced
The way short format works is that it doesn‘t need a downvote button to rope you in and keep you scrolling. Avoid it like the plague.
Unupvote is doubleplus ungood.
In my version they also moved the upvote count so you can barely see it anymore. Its not attached to the like button, but instead is hidden with the view count
The humans can’t downvote the AI slop videos? 🤔
The dislike button was hidden because of their unpopular rewind video. This happened long before AI videos.
They only want downvotes in specific situations.
To help them tune things.
They don’t generally want downvotes, because that breaks the way they want suggestability to work.
Its much harder for the algo to do its job when it tries to reverse engineer ‘why did this person downvote this?’
But when it specifically wants to ask you that, it will.
Its job is to serve you an endless feed of ‘close enough’. Not an endless feed of ‘hey i actually like this’.
