Bring back the original founders from UIUC instead?
Cool thing about these guys is that they have really, really, really long trunks.
YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
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#162To be honest... good riddance. Her tenure will probably be remembered for YouTube's slowly increasing decline into irrelevancy among the young enamored with TikTok and Instagram, increasing and significant censorship misfires (the moment almost every creator has to mention Content ID and the YouTube algorithm or the community guidelines, you've screwed up), the removal of the dislike button despite overwhelming negat…
Youtube is the top platform for teens, according to pew research.
"YouTube tops the 2022 teen online landscape among the platforms covered in the Center’s new survey, as it is used by 95% of teens. TikTok is next on the list of platforms that were asked about in this survey (67%), followed by Instagram and Snapchat, which are both used by about six-in-ten teens. After those platforms come Facebook with 32% and smaller shares who use Twitter, Twitch, WhatsApp, Reddit and Tumblr."
https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2022/08/10/teens-social...
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#163YouTube has become such an unfree, restricted platform in recent years. Hopefully that changes, although I doubt it.
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#164YouTube for the things I enjoy has improved dramatically because the comment section is vastly improved. Everyone used to use YouTube comments as an example of a comment section dumpster fire, but they fixed it. I've seen the recommendations get better then worse then better again as they tweaked the algorithms. Right now it's better than it's ever been. Again, for me. One complaint: I like to upload interesting clip…
Nowadays the comment section on several channels I watch is full of spam, oftentimes 50+ fake accounts responding to each other in threads.
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#165YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)
YT search is dogshit now, rather than just returning results for the keyword you want they mix in random videos you've watched before and "suggested" videos that have no relation to the search
and the lack of likes/dislikes makes it harder to determine quality, which is probably some dark pattern to try and drive more engagement by forcing people to watch multiple videos. Dark patterns work short term, long term they result in TikTok or the equivalent eating your market share
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Agreed. I am a massive fan of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. While I am a bit nervous because major change like this could lead to those products getting worse, I'm also hopeful that it could lead to them getting better! So in general I'm just eager to see what happens next, come what may.
can you sell it to a current spotify user?
I pay for youtube premium for ad-free youtube and to support creators automatically.
Youtube music is not great, but its "free" to me.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Agreed. I am a massive fan of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music. While I am a bit nervous because major change like this could lead to those products getting worse, I'm also hopeful that it could lead to them getting better! So in general I'm just eager to see what happens next, come what may.
can you sell it to a current spotify user?
I like recommendation engine better. Also up to 5 people in family plan.
Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down
#168YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)
> showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high That's because Youtube prioritizes engagement over quality. You make more money that way.
Bingo. This has made me spend a lot less time on Youtube because recommended content and search are worse for me. If I'm searching for a marine biology video I don't want to see recommendations for clickbait influencers 3 results in. I used to go down random rabbit holes when I found related interesting content, but now that just doesn't happen very much anymore.
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#169She quite literally got this far because of family. Geez I wonder why Youtube remains one of the most underperforming media assets. Edit: SV is full of nepotism.
Well given that Youtube gets its money from making the user experience terrible via ad bombardment... that sounds like a good thing?
They'd get more revenue by breaking things like uBlock origin being able to completely remove all ads. Not something we really want them to do I think.
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Completely disagree. Getting rid of that button has significantly cleaned up the associated comments sections. I’ve also noticed a general improvement in my recommendations. Great move imo.
How can you tell when a video contains something misleading? For example, I struggle to find quality DIY videos without the dislikes warning me away. Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.
YouTube still uses dislikes to keep those out of your stream.