All I want these days is a "Don't show me any fucking AI slop" setting and a button to report AI slop.
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Back in my day, memes weren't Ai "enhanced" and Bart didn't have a vagina for an ear.
What is going on with that vaginear anyway? And the random grass rectangle.
new darwinism dropped: survive of the vaginear-en-ist
The dislikes were great at telling me quickly if a tutorial was good or not.
Now you generally have to check the top comments to see if there's something wrong about the tutorial, but then YouTube started hiding those comments below ads/recommendations.
Now I just use GrayJay and I can quickly check comments for any video.
You sweet summer child, back in my day YouTube had a five star rating system and video response functionality.
Gotta say, don't miss video responses. It was nearly all irrelevant content and people trying to advertise their own channels
Perfectly true. It would've been nice, if it wasn't so inherently abusable. We can't have nice things.
Could imagine that working at the scale where PeerTube is currently at, where you can actually get to know folks and it's not just about broadcasting to as many people as possible...
YouTube used to not have ads.
yeh. pepperidge farms members. "broadcast yourself" my ass
You're supposed to use only fans to broadcast your ass fyi
Back in my day, you could customize your YouTube profile and PM anyone on the platform
Back in my day, YouTube had a 5-star rating system
and search results showed only videos related to your search. recommendations on the side were similar videos and not some unrelated bullshit. it was so much better.
Honestly if someone remade an old YouTube alternative I think it would take off.
It’s what I wish PeerTube was, but I’m not sure if that will ever take off sadly.
Lack of advertising dollars is definitely an impediment to video platform alternatives…
I remember a time when people just posted silly little shitty drawn videos just for the fun of it. Not saying creators shouldn’t be compensated for their hard work, I just feel like something was lost with the monetization of every little thing.
The trouble is hosting that much video content and the bandwidth to feed viewers.
Maybe when the AI bubble bursts, people will buy up abandoned data centers for pennies on the dollar and repurpose them for a better Youtube alternative. And maybe Margot Robbie will see this comment and fall in love with me.
People really fail to understand what a truly colossal undertaking a site like YouTube is. It's a technological wonder that they are able to process that much data and serve it so efficiently. Hate YouTube all you want, I do, but the engineers at Google are fucking magicians.
Last I heard it was something on the order of 700 hours of video content uploaded per minute. Insane.
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And the video's rating was plainly visible so you could use it to make the decision whether the video was even worth your click.
The shovelware AI slop video channels wouldn't be such a problem today if we still had that.
Going straight to YouTube is like going straight to Imgur looking for good content. Should never be done. Places like Lemmy or friend chat groups refer me to good videos. Or my curated subscribed channels with quality content is the other way I watch youtube.
Anyone going straight to YouTube.com looking for their algorithm and ratings system to tell them about shit content in advance is mistaken in their expectations.
extensive use of the "Don't recommend this video > Tell us why > I don't like this video" function, plus removing bad videos from my watch history after I stop watching, has got me a well-trained slop-free recommendations page with interesting new smallish channels.
Yeah it can definitely be somewhat trained. Also the extention dearrow makes a big difference in the experience too.
Usually I go there looking for something specific and use the search bar.
However, the search function in YouTube has also turned to absolute crap. It only lists a few results and then switches to random shit you didn't ask for.
A lot of the results are also often misleading titles leading to lazy videos that are a slideshow of impertinent pictures with a synthetized voice spewing inaccurate information. AI has made that even worse. The star rating system would have helped identify these crap videos before you click on them.
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no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?
What's the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?
It's more complicated than that. The button still exists even without the add-on and the back end factors it in and I think shows the creator, but doesn't show it to the front end. So the add-on doesn't have the real numbers but there still are real numbers
To save you time avoiding a bad instructional video.
It's a good enough approximation. Do you really need to know if the massively downvoted video had 357,923 downvotes or 357,924?
I don’t want my watchlist stored on a random third party server
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And this meme wasn't AI upscaled
I hate the one-sided engagement button. It elevates trash.
It still does, it just doesn't show numbers because YouTube is a coward.
No the API is dead. The extension everyone is using calculates their own dislike number by inferring from the extension users who disliked the video
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Fuck yourube lol, couldn't care less if the like button and the rest of the website disappeared too
Man, influencers and looksmaxxing idiots are gonna starve if that happens. How we will know the world is turning into a fucking clown show without it???
We're all being punished because Google's feelings got hurt when we didn't like the 2018 YouTube Rewind enough. That was the end of the dislike button and the YouTube Rewind altogether.
back in my day, you posted about your life in your geocities website! And you wrote the html on notepad and had to include an animated gif that told people to email you, cause that was the style at the time.
If you had Office you could use Microsoft Office FrontPage
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