r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button entirely and users aren’t happy

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-testing-hiding-the-dislike-button-entirely-and-users-arent-happy-3420822/
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u/thinkmatt 10h ago

I hate this on nextdoor. Pretty sure its partly why there is so much ragebait surfaced, with no way to hide it

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u/thekk_ 10h ago

The fact that Reddit still has downvotes is most likely a good part of the reason why it's more sane than the other social media platforms that got rid of it.

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u/LackFormer554 10h ago

It’s also how every subreddit ends up an echo chamber with dissenting points of view sent to the shadow realm. Swings and roundabouts.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 9h ago

People blaming bots every time people disagree with them has also added to this.

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u/Jumpeee 9h ago

There being an actual unhandled bot problem doesn't exactly help with this point either.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 9h ago

Sure, but you can have an opinion that’s quite popular outside of Reddit and people will claim you’re a bot for it lol.

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u/gabu87 9h ago

My bigger problem is when i go into a popular thread (say, 300+ comments). I sort by top and often times the most popular chains says "I can't believe so many people would argue [insert insanely stupid comment here" with hundreds and thousands of upvotes.

Then it gets repeated again and again, but I never actually see said [insanely stupid comment], just people complaining about it even as I get to the end of the thread with like +1/+2 upvotes.

Either these people are reading a completely different Reddit than me or they are sorting by controversial and actively seeking out -5038 vote comments to be mad about

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u/aethersentinel 7h ago

Well, some of them are AIs just predicting what will get upvotes. No reason there needs to be literally anyone who said [insert whatever stupid thing here].

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u/Particular-Cash-8586 8h ago

I experience the same thing.

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u/lplqsnkczxccia 8h ago

with an unhandled bot problem, you can point to bots whenever anyone has an opinion because there really isn't a way to tell who is a bot.

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u/NaturalDon 8h ago

bot accusations rose like 500% in the midst of celebrating being free of russian bots thanks to blown up data centers

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u/Appropriate_Ride_821 7h ago

I get called a bot a lot. Its like disagreement is just rejected entirely because everyone surrounds themselves with safe little bubbles.

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u/MysteryTempest 9h ago

This is one of the less talked about problems of AI and bots. There's a complete breakdown of trust that leads to people thinking that real humans are bots.

Not to mention that it makes it easier to dismiss opinions you disagree with (although that still happened to a certain extent in the past).

The mere existence of these things is damaging to the public discourse even when they're not being used at that particular time.

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u/psmgx 5h ago

51% or more of web traffic is not human.

they're there. of that, there is no question. for popular or political subreddits it's probably as high as 1 in 3.

"look to your left. look to you right. one of you is not human"

plus you've got word_word#### as a username, killer, and a hidden post history. if I was using default account names for spam they'd look just like that...

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 5h ago

> 51% or more of web traffic is not human.

That doesn’t mean it’s bots lmao.

There’s a ridiculous amount of web crawlers, APIs and bots that are farming rather than causing political discourse.

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u/Shapes_in_Clouds 8h ago

Yeah, and the voting system is easily botted. And even when it's not, people still upvote and engage with the same kind of content other platforms promote via algorithm. Ragebait is everywhere here.

Reddit's primary advantage is its community structure so you can still find and engage primarily with decent, thoughtful communities if you want. But the shift to algorithmic feeds on Reddit is also starting to expose you more and more to the more toxic side of this site.

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u/thinkingdeads 7h ago edited 7h ago

Like how every circlejerk sub that was meant to parody a main sub/community for its negative traits ends up an actual circlejerk community with even worse traits (exacerbated by the fact it will be combined with a cynical hostility towards others in the main sub/community and general sense of superiority in taste, morality, and intellectual ability).

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u/LackFormer554 7h ago

Yeah, or they turn to softcore porn. I’m looking at you /r/okbuddycinephile

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u/mommytyres 10h ago

Show me where a dissenting point of view with actual merit is being hidden. I’ll wait.

Oh, your conspiracy theory bullshit got downvoted? Good.

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u/Historical_Owl_1635 9h ago

Conspiracy theory?

Of course the upvote system will always cater to popular opinion, it’s not a conspiracy it’s the whole logic behind it.

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u/Defendyouranswer 9h ago

Such a reddit answer. 😂

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u/LackFormer554 9h ago

The hivemind has spoken

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u/beccabeth741 9h ago

You should probably go outside.

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u/Meloetta 8h ago

Have you really never made a comment on a post that you found to be reasonable, only to come back later and realized it's buried by downvotes and hidden? I feel like this is a pretty normal occurrence if you leave reasonable comments that include opinions.

"Normal" as in, reddit has an agreed-upon set of opinions largely. Those don't always align with the general public's agreed-upon set of opinions, and reddit isn't very tolerant of a wide variety of opinions, often attributing a differing opinion to lack of morality rather than a normal variation in human experience. It's not an every comment thing, but if you have opinions that don't always mesh with reddit, you're gonna personally experience "my view has merit but it's being hidden" at some point.

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u/NOZZLeS 10h ago

he and others like him have no issue with that