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I always see it as more of a social media company rather than a media co.
by lemonish97 7mo ago
I always see it as more of a social media company rather than a media co.
- busymom0 7mo agoI often comment on videos but never do I check replies to my comments there.
- kami23 7mo agoI went to see if I had any replies to a comment I left on a video for the first time today and it's really hidden to get back to them if you don't remember the exact video. I wonder if it's purposeful friction or just not a priority.
- squigz 7mo agoClick History on the homepage left sidebar > Comments on right side of History page https://www.youtube.com/feed/history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
- croes 7mo agoAnd now try to find the comment someone replied to
- squigz 7mo agoOh, fair enough. That is indeed not shown anywhere it seems.
- loevborg 7mo agoI agree. I wonder how people are motivated to comment if they can't even track replies or check likes. It certainly completely kills motivation for me
- squigz 7mo agoDo you and GP not get notifications for replies and (at least some) likes?
- kami23 7mo agoIn my case I have almost all notifications disabled so maybe there's an option somewhere. Generally find those notification badges too powerful for me to not check and then get waylaid doom scrolling/watching, so I've made it a habit to always disable them everywhere. Somewhat tempted to re-enable it as I only really comment on videos that are for very very niche communities and I'm usually answering or asking questions.
- croes 7mo agoI get the notifications but it’s sometimes hard to know for which comment if it’s more than one in a discussion.
- loevborg 7mo agoI don't think I get notified but maybe it's because my replies are unpopular
- Acrobatic_Road 7mo agohow do you resist the urge to click on the red notification icon?
- inquirerGeneral 7mo ago[dead]
- RobRivera 7mo agoAnd so many comments may aswell be bots. >anyone here in CURRENTYEAR >This is scene is so [adjective] Not exactly a forum, more like a concert crowd
- esafak 7mo ago"Who's here from Hacker News??"
- unclad5968 7mo agoI tried to one time, but I couldn't even figure it out so I gave up.
- raincole 7mo agoJust anecdotes, but I feel YouTube comments are the bottom of social media. Even Twitter and Reddit are better. But if the 99% garbage is the price of the emerging of channels like 3B1B, I think it's still a pretty good deal.
- thundergolfer 7mo agoTheir algorithm has a toxic positivity problem where they weight positivity so much the most moronic, saccharine crap sits at the top and you'd be hard pressed to distinguish the comments from LLM slop.
- fancyfredbot 7mo ago"Epic refresh pull" is my personal pet hate right now. Although "like if you are watching this in <year>" on older videos is close behind.
- thundergolfer 7mo agoThe comments pretending Marvel actors (e.g. Benedict Cumberbatch) are their Marvel characters in other movies (e.g. Sam Mendes' 1917) kill me.
- keiferski 7mo agoI don’t agree at all. This was true a decade ago, but today YouTube comments are almost all positive, and you’ll often get some really insightful ones too.
- redwall_hp 7mo agoChannels can moderate their comments too. So channels run by thoughtful, community-oriented people will zap trash comments. The music production sphere is especially good.
- keiferski 7mo ago
- carlosjobim 7mo agoThere's nothing social about it. You don't add your friends and chat with your friends on YouTube.
- rconti 7mo agoIf you watch Shorts, maybe. If you watch normal videos, the comments are pretty much an afterthought. But even shorts, assuming they're like reels/stories, the "social" aspect is very minimal compared with, say, Facebook posts back in the day, where your friends would see and comment and reply to each other. The Algorithm doesn't really want that anymore; it wants to feed you content from arbitrary people to keep you passively engaged, not to foster conversation/active engagement.