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/Koru03 8h ago

I, and many people like me, will absolutely drop reddit when they finally break old reddit. The new shit is unusable by comparison.

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u/Caleth 8h ago

100% I'm mentally prepping myself to leave.

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u/psmgx 5h ago

yeah it's coming. i'm gone when it does, but at this point just feels like a matter of time.

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u/Caleth 4h ago

Because it is. The Enshitification train that leads to the line-must-go-up-ville can't end anywhere else.

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u/Sugioh 7h ago

Yep. This is my final red line. Old reddit is the only thing that keeps the site usable.

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

Is there any better place where nerds go? Maybe where the average age is above 14 and I don't have to read "bro. bro bro. BROOOO" in every thread?

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u/Sugioh 7h ago

Sadly, not that I'm really aware of. There's the fediverse, but it's still pretty awkward to use (at least for me) and lacks a lot of the hyper-niche small communities served by subreddits that I love.

If reddit goes too far we may see a mass migration, but there aren't a lot of promising competitors waiting in the wings currently.

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u/elebrin 6h ago

If you are after articles, Substack has some decent stuff worth following, but you have to go find stuff to subscribe to specifically and there is still a lot of trash. The beginnings of a decent platform exist, however.

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u/diablette 23m ago

Substack doesn't let you filter out paid content. Halfway through an article - bam - paywall. And every individual blogger wants 4.99+ a month.

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u/the_post_of_tom_joad 7h ago

the metaverse is waiting /s

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

I already want to drop it. The juice isn't worth the squeeze anymore. The conversations are just Youtube level comments. Facebook boomer posts are highly upvoted. The same repeated jokes over and over. The same repeated reaction gifs over and over. Any thread that you'd hope would have some topical discussion, additional information, etc. just has a million try-hard "comedians" with the same predictable schlock.

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u/4x4Mimo 2h ago

Subreddits worth subbing to seem to have increasingly less activity these days too. There's a higher and higher percentage of drama and crap that's taken over.

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u/Nearby_Mouse_6698 4h ago

I’m feeling this too. Conversation and unique perspectives from people all over is so interesting to me . I feel like it’s just bots causing culture war nonsense or political discord . It’s not new but it feels so much worse across platforms these days.