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TIL you could send messages on YouTube
I take their word for it but still no idea what it means. Do I have a youtube inbox I have not been checking my whole life?
How come the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit, but youtube discontinues the same feature? Has google entirely given up on getting a social network? Google seems to constantly create new messenger apps. Why would they discontinue the one that could be used to turn youtube into a real social network? Instead of hiding the feature, they should enhance it and make it usable, i.e. make it easy to block harassment…
> Has google entirely given up on getting a social network? The problem is moderation. Youtube has enough on their hands dealing with trolls, conspiracy crap, spam, Nazis/other hate speech, propaganda, pedophiles, animal/child abusers, terrorists, copyright, ... - they don't really have the resources to deal with the inevitable sausagefests in the inboxes of women and the other hate that this feature would be used if…
2) Google knows the identity of almost any internet user, as shown by the new recaptcha system.
3) They don't allow banned people to recreate new accounts. At least that seems to be a problem for people who were banned from the app store.
If they link this up, they should be able to keep inboxes clean. And if this fails, they just have to offer an option to switch to a whitelist approach for people whose inbox is flooded.
How come the orangered envelope is cherished on reddit, but youtube discontinues the same feature? Has google entirely given up on getting a social network? Google seems to constantly create new messenger apps. Why would they discontinue the one that could be used to turn youtube into a real social network? Instead of hiding the feature, they should enhance it and make it usable, i.e. make it easy to block harassment…
Is is cherished? There is literally a meme that "orange envelope = who did I piss off now?". And granted there is a little bit of worthwhile content on Reddit, but it's basically the equivalent of reading Facebook at this point in time. Especially in what used to be the default subs.
TIL you could send messages on YouTube
This is sad. As someone who loves browsing the "hidden" side of YT where videos and channels with sub 3 and 4 digit viewcount lurk and discovering weird obscure content, this feature was a godsend. I have been able to contact users that otherwise leave absolutely no contact info on their pages to ask them about certain content they have uploaded on multiple occasions. I really dislike how stuff like twitter and Insta…
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I also don't understand this, just like the decision to remove certain features over time. Used to be that YouTube had the option to translate comments from another language, with a button right next to the comment, even before Twitter was doing it. While not perfect, the translations were usually still good enough to get what people were writing and at times even good enough to have conversations across language bor…
Because in the current data-snowflake regulatory and legislative climate, it’s too tough to get away with monetising content sent in a ‘private’ context. Googles business model relies on being able to index and advertise to every phrase you post, but I’m sure they don’t want to run into the same issues fb has, because fb posts have an expectation of privacy. Hence google has no interest in providing a private messagi…
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I take their word for it but still no idea what it means. Do I have a youtube inbox I have not been checking my whole life?
It was more obvious in the mobile app - there was an entire tab devoted to messaging. I still don't know how to access it from desktop