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let's not pretend like youtube has some heights of quality it's upholding. "all sorts of quality" is really more like all sorts ranging from good to bad to awfu
by pxoe 3y ago
let's not pretend like youtube has some heights of quality it's upholding. "all sorts of quality" is really more like all sorts ranging from good to bad to awful. and short-form comedy is in there too, and was there all along, right on the regular youtube.
- seydor 3y agothe quality has gotten better over the years so they must have been doing something right
- pxoe 3y agothey're mostly doing nothing. they're sleeping on every emerging video category. they got a video podcasts section only this year. their gaming catalog remains barebones. it's like they just don't want to make any "controversial" content curation decisions, even if it means that the platform is stagnating. let's not confuse creators and creator communities progressing and evolving, with state of platforms they happen to be on.
- arlcode 3y agoWhat has gone down is my ability to even tell what a video is even about since YouTubes algorithm/metrics/ad distribution Encourages creators to make absolute garbage titles and thumbnails in order to be discovered. This has absolutely negatively affected my YouTube view time since I am annoyed at having to guess the topic and whether it is worth suffering an ad for it. I put this in YouTubes court since they control what is shown to users and what isn't.