also LibreTube/Flux/Tubular/FreeTube/Clipious and FreeTube Desktop and Clipious for Android TV and Playlet for Roku (get rid of your roku) and Yattee for every iOS device
theres grayjay too if you dont mind ethically dubious software
For a long time after they removed the 5 star system, if you subscribed to a channel via RSS, it would show you the like/dislike data for videos as a 5 star rating. You can't see it easily any more but I suspect, due to tech debt, youtube's internals are still using the 5 star rating.
In my version they also moved the upvote count so you can barely see it anymore. Its not attached to the like button, but instead is hidden with the view count
Toxic positivity. I'm not a fan of "your opinion doesn't count unless you agree with me" and this is just a social media platform saying the same thing. But I'm grateful for the Return YouTube Dislike browser plug-in/add-on so that you can have some point of reference among perspectives outside one's own. If a video has 300 likes, you might think it's a fine video and you'll watch it thinking "wow 300 people endorsed this". If a video has 300 likes and 500 dislikes, though, you at least KNOW "oh that's at least one red flag. I shall invest more effort than usual into being skeptical and mindful, and more effort into thinking critically as well, as I watch this."
If i see a ton of dislikes on a video whose topic is one of the new reich's designated scapegoats, the dislike count may in fact be a factor that INCREASES my favorability toward it, because chuds brigading something means it upsets them.
18 Comments
cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 29 pts · 46d
Do what I do, stop liking the videos. If they won’t count the downvotes, don’t contribute to the upvotes.
lemmyng@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 46d
Instructions unclear, moved to Newpipe/PipePipe and SmartTube.
Turret3857@infosec.pub · 8 pts · 46d
also LibreTube/Flux/Tubular/FreeTube/Clipious and FreeTube Desktop and Clipious for Android TV and Playlet for Roku (get rid of your roku) and Yattee for every iOS device
theres grayjay too if you dont mind ethically dubious softwaregreen_red_black@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 46d
Down votes still count. It just doesn't make the algorithm depriortize said content
ascend@lemmy.radio · 10 pts · 46d
So what do they do
lime@feddit.nu · 28 pts · 46d
show up to the channel owner to give them anxiety
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 46d
They do actually deprioritise videos for you, if you disliked them.
SpaceScotsman@startrek.website · 14 pts · 46d
For a long time after they removed the 5 star system, if you subscribed to a channel via RSS, it would show you the like/dislike data for videos as a 5 star rating. You can't see it easily any more but I suspect, due to tech debt, youtube's internals are still using the 5 star rating.
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 5 pts · 46d
That's really fucking funny if that's true! And knowing tech debt, it might very well be!
palordrolap@fedia.io · 14 pts · 46d
Unupvote is doubleplus ungood.
Siethron@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 46d
The biggest loss here was the neutral Futurama video being unable to be balanced
CosmoNova@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 46d
The way short format works is that it doesn‘t need a downvote button to rope you in and keep you scrolling. Avoid it like the plague.
MaggiWuerze@feddit.org · 8 pts · 46d
In my version they also moved the upvote count so you can barely see it anymore. Its not attached to the like button, but instead is hidden with the view count
cyclonedusk@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 45d
Toxic positivity. I'm not a fan of "your opinion doesn't count unless you agree with me" and this is just a social media platform saying the same thing. But I'm grateful for the Return YouTube Dislike browser plug-in/add-on so that you can have some point of reference among perspectives outside one's own. If a video has 300 likes, you might think it's a fine video and you'll watch it thinking "wow 300 people endorsed this". If a video has 300 likes and 500 dislikes, though, you at least KNOW "oh that's at least one red flag. I shall invest more effort than usual into being skeptical and mindful, and more effort into thinking critically as well, as I watch this."
If i see a ton of dislikes on a video whose topic is one of the new reich's designated scapegoats, the dislike count may in fact be a factor that INCREASES my favorability toward it, because chuds brigading something means it upsets them.
dil@piefed.zip · 6 pts · 46d
Why are you crosspost karma farming, it's lemmy karma doesn't matter
Cyber@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 46d
The humans can't downvote the AI slop videos? 🤔
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 46d
The dislike button was hidden because of their unpopular rewind video. This happened long before AI videos.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 42d
They only want downvotes in specific situations.
To help them tune things.
They don't generally want downvotes, because that breaks the way they want suggestability to work.
Its much harder for the algo to do its job when it tries to reverse engineer 'why did this person downvote this?'
But when it specifically wants to ask you that, it will.
Its job is to serve you an endless feed of 'close enough'. Not an endless feed of 'hey i actually like this'.