yay now you have to watch the whole video to tell if it’s a scam/troll/shitty tutorial, at least capeshit movie trailers won’t be downvoted anymore
Hexbear fucking got rid of downvotes
Hexbear also has good strict moderation though. YouTube very much doesn’t.
I just checked and I definitely still see dislikes, so idk what you’re talkin about, did you mean they announced that they will?
Did they give a reason? Is there an obvious real reason? Cause like, I feel like downvotes and controversy drive engagement more, so I’m actually curious here, but I feel like there’s gotta be a nefarious motive
you know what sucks the most, in my opinion? it’s not that we won’t get to see if it’s a shitty video straight away, or if the chuds are brigading it or anything like that… it’s just the fact that this is 100% going to somehow change online discourse, and who the fuck knows how
it’s like they’re just pulling levers in this giant radicalization machine, and all we can do is hope that this doesn’t have the same shitty consequences as their long tail thought bubble algorithm bullshit
honestly, I’m just tossing random algorithm marketing buzzwords around to make a point of how this is all techbro mumbo jumbo, but despite my dislike for the NYT, there’s some interesting stuff about right wing radicalization in their rabbit hole podcast, you might want to check it out: https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
The filter-bubble is a term used for the way the content you consume online is used to tailor the content directed at you, especially by large entities like Google and Facebook and Amazon. It magnifies biases in feedback loops, creates sortitions of people online, and even leads to the point where two people can find completely conflicting things from the same search query, based on how the algorithm analyzes you.
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser is a very good read. It lays out many social dynamics of the Web today, including advertising and social media and third-party tracking.
