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Mainstream media is dying fast and YouTube is replacing it #ftw You can watch what you want, when you want, search and recommendations are powerful. Individual content creators are on fire, unfiltered and quality content. Can't remember when we watched MSM in the last 10 years, like other said it's garbage and just propaganda.
It's certainly the golden age of youtube, with high quality creators, I learned a lot of interesting stuff that I probably otherwise wouldn't, though it's hard to know because I would have read about these things in magazines.
But there are some issues in the space.
For example, my attempt to report low quality autogenerated nonsense from a bot has so far been unsuccessful because of a combination of being too small to notice and successful evasion tactics.
Creators need sponsors, some of which are questionable, to pay the bills and youtube continues to be an unstable income stream.
Moderation is absolutely necessary to maintain information quality, but youtube moderation is not very transparent and they are unaccountable if creators are wrongfully banned. It's also why my attempt to report a bot go nowhere.
For now that is. I sort of hope someone more motivated than myself makes a timer for how long before the crappification* of YouTube begins now that it appears MBAs will be taking over. The new CEO probably has some gumption, but it seems inevitable. * of course this is subjective, but generally I can find lots of great YouTube content. I can buy premium to avoid the ads and become the client, not the product. 1: http…
I am a huge fan of YouTube overall and have been happy to pay to have an ad-free experience
Can’t beat the price. Google knows what its target market is willing to pay.
I can’t stand how they shove YouTube Shorts down our throats and don’t give us a way to disable that. I am a huge fan of YouTube overall and have been happy to pay to have an ad-free experience