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This whole "fake news" and "big tech is horrible" trope is tiresome. That being said there is a bunch of nonsense on YouTube and it is annoying when trying to
by mythrwy 9y ago
This whole "fake news" and "big tech is horrible" trope is tiresome.
That being said there is a bunch of nonsense on YouTube and it is annoying when trying to find legitimate information. Watch an informative video on history or archeology or something and two seconds later they are pushing a video about aliens creating the pyramids and the worst part is, because it's a video, you might have to watch it for a few minutes to find out it's utter rubbish unlike text where you can scan quickly and determine.
I don't really expect (nor want) YouTube to curate though, the moral hazard in that seems even more undesirable. Some kind of an expert rating layer would be cool though for objective topics (lets leave politics out, I'm not interested in that kind of a rating layer and don't watch those kind of videos). I can't follow every legit poster on every topic I might become passingly interested in and it's troubling to see nonsense presented right alongside informed commentary.