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AntiProtonBoy:

--- Quote from: engrguy42 on January 08, 2021, 08:15:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: AntiProtonBoy on January 07, 2021, 12:14:58 am --- There is so many good stuff out there, highly educational and creative. Not many platforms offer the same level of variety and amount of content.

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You realize that people aren't interested in "educational and creative", right? They want video games where they can sit for hours shooting guys' heads off. Or, worse yet, spend hours watching SOMEBODY ELSE play video games. They'll gladly pay a monthly fee for Netflix and HBO subscriptions and not blink an eye. But "educational"? Not even on the radar. Spend 5 seconds watching an ad in a Youtube video so the creator gets 0.1 micro-cents? No freakin' way.
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You are totally missing my point. Doesn't matter what other people are interested in, or what the most popular topic is for the day. It's about you having a choice, seeking out content you want, and ignoring the rest. There is a search engine which lets you do that. Educational channels are out there, you just have to find it by topic. It's not hard.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: Zucca on February 02, 2021, 10:51:48 am ---Youtube is now a pile of steaming horse shit... and I am full of shit too because I can't stop watching it.
Odysee/LBRY Vimeo are very well done, they deserve more attention.

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I watch Odysee every day now.
PKTKS:
I just loved that cat part...

Alas any youtuber  just need to put a cat somewhere

ad bingo.   (pun intended)

Paul
Daixiwen:
Not surprisingly the Youtube Algorithm has become so complicated that some people find loopholes to get their content promoted. For example with the new "shorts" feature you can get a channel to a million subscribers in just a month without putting too much effort into it. This is really crazy. And all this of course pollutes search results when you are actually looking for interesting content.



But that's an interesting problem. Youtube used to be good to propose new content to me that was relevant to what I liked. On Odysee I can find content from creators I know allready but the site is not very good at proposing relevant new content. It must be difficult to design an algorithm that can be both good at proposing new content at that can't be abused by people that just want quick views.
basinstreetdesign:
I watch quite a bit of YT stuff and have never given them any money at all but lately I have seen something to raise my eyebrows.

About 3 months ago YT started acting strange by refusing to accept any comment I may make on any video "error returned", etc. and when loading the list of suggestions it would not load past the first screen.  I also have an account with PayPal and streaming sites Netflix and Acorn and about the same time they refused to play for me.  It took a while but I eventually found that the special credit card I use for them had expired about the same time and I hadn't activated the replacement.  Yet those channels continued to make charges against the card and I continued to pay them.  Oh well, I made a big deal of it only to Acorn and to their credit they gave me 3 months of free service to please me.

Then after 95 days of this I finally activated the new card and wouldn't you know that on the very same day all problems went away including the YT-related issues!  Huh?  So how does YT fit into this arrangement?  As far as I know I haven't given them a nickle and never will.
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