Youtube Disliked the Dislikes

4 months ago by FoxtrotDeltaTango to c/programmer_humor

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/48672875

cerebralhawks 29 points 4 months ago

Do what I do, stop liking the videos. If they won’t count the downvotes, don’t contribute to the upvotes.

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lemmyng 43 points 4 months ago

Instructions unclear, moved to Newpipe/PipePipe and SmartTube.

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Turret3857 8 points 4 months ago

also LibreTube/Flux/Tubular/FreeTube/Clipious and FreeTube Desktop and Clipious for Android TV and Playlet for Roku (get rid of your roku) and Yattee for every iOS device

theres grayjay too if you dont mind ethically dubious software

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green_red_black 5 points 4 months ago

Down votes still count. It just doesn't make the algorithm depriortize said content

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ascend 10 points 4 months ago

So what do they do

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lime 28 points 4 months ago

show up to the channel owner to give them anxiety

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lord_ryvan 6 points 4 months ago

They do actually deprioritise videos for you, if you disliked them.

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palordrolap 14 points 4 months ago

Unupvote is doubleplus ungood.

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SpaceScotsman 14 points 4 months ago

For a long time after they removed the 5 star system, if you subscribed to a channel via RSS, it would show you the like/dislike data for videos as a 5 star rating. You can't see it easily any more but I suspect, due to tech debt, youtube's internals are still using the 5 star rating.

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lord_ryvan 5 points 4 months ago

That's really fucking funny if that's true! And knowing tech debt, it might very well be!

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Siethron 13 points 4 months ago

The biggest loss here was the neutral Futurama video being unable to be balanced

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CosmoNova 11 points 4 months ago

The way short format works is that it doesn‘t need a downvote button to rope you in and keep you scrolling. Avoid it like the plague.

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MaggiWuerze 8 points 4 months ago

In my version they also moved the upvote count so you can barely see it anymore. Its not attached to the like button, but instead is hidden with the view count

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cyclonedusk 7 points 4 months ago

Toxic positivity. I'm not a fan of "your opinion doesn't count unless you agree with me" and this is just a social media platform saying the same thing. But I'm grateful for the Return YouTube Dislike browser plug-in/add-on so that you can have some point of reference among perspectives outside one's own. If a video has 300 likes, you might think it's a fine video and you'll watch it thinking "wow 300 people endorsed this". If a video has 300 likes and 500 dislikes, though, you at least KNOW "oh that's at least one red flag. I shall invest more effort than usual into being skeptical and mindful, and more effort into thinking critically as well, as I watch this."

If i see a ton of dislikes on a video whose topic is one of the new reich's designated scapegoats, the dislike count may in fact be a factor that INCREASES my favorability toward it, because chuds brigading something means it upsets them.

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Cyber 6 points 4 months ago

The humans can't downvote the AI slop videos? 🤔

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lord_ryvan 6 points 4 months ago

The dislike button was hidden because of their unpopular rewind video. This happened long before AI videos.

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dil 6 points 4 months ago

Why are you crosspost karma farming, it's lemmy karma doesn't matter