admiralteal

This is a thread about YouTube shorts and its bad algorithm, dude.

There was also that Greek flight where they killed an entire plane load of people with hypoxia because the alarm for cabin air pressure was the same as the alert for arriving at cruising altitude so the flight crew didn't realize it was going off. And thanks to post-9/11 locked cabin policies, which has basically certainly killed more people than they helped, the captains weren't in proper communication with the rest of the crew.

Yours, on the other hand, is predicated on the belief that they're all super-incompetent and have no capability of doing anything right ever

Nope. It's only this specific thing that I necessarily think they're doing a bad job of. And I'm right; they are. Their algorithm is a struggling baby compared to TikTok and YouTube at large is not a major profit center (and indeed may not be profitable at all -- but they maintain it because abandoning it would be too costly for them).

TikTok is so good at doing this thing that it is a profitable business for them. YouTube is struggling, and we can clearly see why.

It's your account and your comments. You can do with them as you wish.

That's the point. If you don't wish to leave them behind to be profitable to Reddit, that's also your choice. I don't feel strongly about your choice to do it one way or another. Personally, I nuked my 15yo account and all comments completely because I don't want to leave anything valuable behind to make profits for a company that I feel doesn't deserve them.

The point is, those comments were mine, not theirs. I don't want them selling them for profit, especially to an LLM mill.

Fediverse stuff is essentially not commercialized by nature.

We should hold commercial actors to entirely different standards than non-commercial ones. There's no hypocrisy in doing so.

It wasn't that Reddit was going to do so. It is that they were going to do so in a fundamentally proprietary way -- they were treating the content as THEIR property to monetize and sell.

And also stops Reddit from monetizing this volunteer-made content they intended to disrespectfully pilfer.

This is predicated on the belief that Google/YouTube is run in a 100% hyper-competent way. I don't buy that.

Google does things the easiest way possible to make tons of money. They make unforced errors all the damn time.

That should mean engagement. It serves up such bad videos that I disengage.

Once in a while I'll realize I just spent 20, 30 minutes looking at a streak of pretty decent stuff. Rare enough to be remarkable. Usually after just 3 or 4 consecutive crap clips I'll close it down and get back to work.

I doubt anything disengages a user faster than low-quality content. I bet it does it even faster than the authoritarian politics and bigotry YouTube seems to inexorable serve you.

I'm not even sure it is bad policies. I am pretty sure that they just don't have moderators.

I doubt anyone reads 99.9% of reports.

So you get bigotry and hate, you get insane and deadly DIYs, you get 12yo girls being creeped while posting random 5s clips from their lives.

Not to mention just the vast amount of extraordinarily low-quality content YouTube serves up. It's amazing how bad a lot of the videos it thinks you will like are. The algorithm makes no sense.

But hey, here's 16 different Joe Rogan clips with sigma male music in the background.

Carpeted bathroom is a thing, Some people really swear by it.

But taking a shit on the living room toilet? That's a real power play from a host.