Back in my day, memes weren’t Ai “enhanced” and Bart didn’t have a vagina for an ear.
You sweet summer child, back in my day YouTube had a five star rating system and video response functionality.
Gotta say, don’t miss video responses. It was nearly all irrelevant content and people trying to advertise their own channels
Perfectly true. It would’ve been nice, if it wasn’t so inherently abusable. We can’t have nice things.
YouTube used to not have ads.
yeh. pepperidge farms members. “broadcast yourself” my ass
Back in my day, you could customize your YouTube profile and PM anyone on the platform
I hate the one-sided engagement button. It elevates trash.
Fuck yourube lol, couldn’t care less if the like button and the rest of the website disappeared too
Back in my day, YouTube had a 5-star rating system
and search results showed only videos related to your search. recommendations on the side were similar videos and not some unrelated bullshit. it was so much better.
Honestly if someone remade an old YouTube alternative I think it would take off.
It’s what I wish PeerTube was, but I’m not sure if that will ever take off sadly.
Lack of advertising dollars is definitely an impediment to video platform alternatives…
I remember a time when people just posted silly little shitty drawn videos just for the fun of it. Not saying creators shouldn’t be compensated for their hard work, I just feel like something was lost with the monetization of every little thing.
The trouble is hosting that much video content and the bandwidth to feed viewers.
Recommendations on the side today are related to everything you’ve watched in like the last week or so.
Which I really hate, because it means when you get into some specific interest, YouTube basically stops showing you anything else.
Hey YouTube! Those interests I was into last week, last month, I’m still into them! Please don’t railroad me like that!
And the video’s rating was plainly visible so you could use it to make the decision whether the video was even worth your click.
The shovelware AI slop video channels wouldn’t be such a problem today if we still had that.
Going straight to YouTube is like going straight to Imgur looking for good content. Should never be done. Places like Lemmy or friend chat groups refer me to good videos. Or my curated subscribed channels with quality content is the other way I watch youtube.
Anyone going straight to YouTube.com looking for their algorithm and ratings system to tell them about shit content in advance is mistaken in their expectations.
extensive use of the “Don’t recommend this video > Tell us why > I don’t like this video” function, plus removing bad videos from my watch history after I stop watching, has got me a well-trained slop-free recommendations page with interesting new smallish channels.
Usually I go there looking for something specific and use the search bar.
However, the search function in YouTube has also turned to absolute crap. It only lists a few results and then switches to random shit you didn’t ask for.
A lot of the results are also often misleading titles leading to lazy videos that are a slideshow of impertinent pictures with a synthetized voice spewing inaccurate information. AI has made that even worse. The star rating system would have helped identify these crap videos before you click on them.
Or good channel you know mention other channel.
Makes me wonder if under the hood it’s still stored as stars or if they migrated their data. Is a 3 star or more rating displayed as thumbs up now? Is a thumbs up just a 5 star rating? When thumbs down existed was that just 1 star?
google is absolute worst
Back in my day, there were alternatives to Google
And this meme wasn’t AI upscaled
no one uses the return YouTube dislikes browser extension?
What’s the point, if downvotes are no longer a factor in the YT backend?
To save you time avoiding a bad instructional video.
It’s a good enough approximation. Do you really need to know if the massively downvoted video had 357,923 downvotes or 357,924?
I don’t want my watchlist stored on a random third party server
I had to get rid of it when it caused massive slowdowns for me. That’s probably fixed by now…
There are dozens of us
It still does, it just doesn’t show numbers because YouTube is a coward.
No the API is dead. The extension everyone is using calculates their own dislike number by inferring from the extension users who disliked the video
But the button is still there.
Afaik it’s only for the YT-Studio backend, so creators can see the dislikes but there is no public access to that data
They already removed it from Shorts. Give it a little time and it will be gone from the rest of the videos.
Not like you need another reason to not watch shorts.
We’re all being punished because Google’s feelings got hurt when we didn’t like the 2018 YouTube Rewind enough. That was the end of the dislike button and the YouTube Rewind altogether.
back in my day, you posted about your life in your geocities website! And you wrote the html on notepad and had to include an animated gif that told people to email you, cause that was the style at the time.
If you had Office you could use Microsoft Office FrontPage
Some people still do on Neocities
nowai
I wrote HTML in EDIT, but my first webserver ran on an OpenVMS Alpha workstation.
Eh, back when GeoCities was still a thing, most people were too busy actually having a life to regularly post about it online. Since this was before smartphones, updating a social media profile was a lot more complicated and time-consuming.
Having an active social media profile back then was often a red flag that a person was more “talk” than “walk“.
idk I’ve always been a weirdo
Unironically, that’s usually what most geocities pages were about
Exactly.
Return youtube dislike extension.
It still has for me.
Yes, but actually no.
2 things:
- Dislike button itself not "wired’ to any visible/meaningful count and only seen by video author (which is funny, cause whole point of hiding dislike count was promoted as “beneficial to mental health of channel owners”)
- If you using youtube dislikes — it replaces that button with it’s own, counts presses on its own and uses own logic to show “approximate” amount of dislikes on video: it’s not like it knows real count, what I’m trying to say
