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/airfryerfuntime 9h ago edited 8h ago

Turn off the suggested feed.

I still use RIF, but with the official app, I noticed all the algorithm driven slop reduced by a lot when I turned off suggested.

Edit: to the people asking about RIF, you can get it running with a patcher like Revanced or Morphe. I have it running through Revanced because I haven't changed it over to Morphe yet. For the longest time, it was pretty broken, with YouTube links and imgur albums not working, but that has been fixed through Revanced. https://github.com/MojiRS/revanced-rif-patches. The Morphe patcher is more limited and hasn't fixed YouTube links yet, I don't believe.

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u/Caleth 9h ago

Old.reddit.com and Reddit Enhancement Suite.

Keep that puppy going as long as possible all the "improvements" they've made to reddit don't get passed along keeping it clean and efficient.

it is a 900% better experience that the current nu reddit layout.

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u/eyebrows360 8h ago

We can't even see comment histories for some accounts, so it does look like they're trying to phase it out still, but I too will be holding on as long as possible.

The insane reduction in information density in the "new" UI, with all the fucking social-media-boilerplate whitespace and huge borders and padding everywhere, is just terrible.

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u/FUCKTHISWEBSITEBANME 8h ago

It's intended for mobile, for the average social media user. Reddit is just normal social media now, for the average idiot.

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u/Magickarpet76 8h ago

Which is why the normal braindead social media bullshit comments are becoming more prevalent.

“THIS LMAO 😂😂😂” /s

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u/Aellope13 7h ago

I still might prefer that to the ‘Narwhal bacons at midnight’ days.

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u/FUCKTHISWEBSITEBANME 7h ago

Idk man sometimes this site just makes me miss the cringe dork days. I genuinely hope they ban me so I can just read this shit without being tempted to reply. They changed it so that to use old.reddit you have to have an account, which is why I have an account again. I deleted my account years ago specifically so I wouldn't be tempted to get into stupid arguments with idiots, and now I'm back to getting into stupid arguments with the biggest idiots possible, and there's a good chance they're not even people.

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u/elebrin 6h ago

I vastly preferred those days. Was it goofy? Sure, but it had a soul.

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u/East_Sorbet_8388 6h ago

At least that hints at the possibility of a personality.

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u/I_am_Andrew_Ryan 4h ago

At least in those days people cared about spelling and formatting

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u/Marshall_Lawson 7h ago

it has been since before new.reddit

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u/RedAero 4h ago

The internet, reddit absolutely included, turned to shit when the aforementioned "average social media users" (read: morons) arrived in droves with their smartphones. Literally every problem of the internet, and caused by the internet, can be solved by removing it from ubiquitous mobile devices and restricting it to bona fide personal computers. No laptops. If you can move it, no internet.

Why? Because when "the internet" is "on the computer", it means you have to leave it behind whenever you do anything Real. It doesn't follow you around, because it can't; you leave your asinine comment, you turn the thing off, and until you turn it back on and decide to return to the same website there is no way for it to reach you. Every problem since ~2016 can be traced to people allowing - nay, demanding! - the internet follow them around 24/7, leading to them blurring the line between what's real and what's virtual. It's been an absolute catastrophe.

A couple of years ago it dawned on me that when I reply some BS to some halfwit's reddit comment, they - in all likelihood being a smartphone-using troglodyte - get an immediate, loud notice on their person, wherever they are, whatever they are doing. Meaning I literally have the power to annoy people who I've never met, who I'll never interact with again, all because they were stupid enough to allow a website to become an app and decided to allow it to intrude upon their consciousness for literally no benefit whatsoever.

By contrast, if someone replies to this comment all that'll happen is that a small icon in the top right corner will turn orange. I will only notice when - if! - I visit this site again. In the meantime, there is no way for this shithole to manifest itself in my life. Why some people decide to do the opposite I will never understand.

If you're a reddit user on "the app", let this be a reminder to you that this is a website. You visit websites using a browser, when and if you want to do so, and then you leave them. There is no reason to let this dump exist in the background of your life.

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u/Marshall_Lawson 3h ago

this is p much why, even though i do use reddit on my phone, i don't use the app and hell no i don't let it give me notifications. the site still waits until i go back and check it to let me know if i got replies. 

you might be onto something about leaving the internet behind when you go outside though, lol. 

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

Yeah the days of this being a nerd site are looooooooooooong gone. Like many years gone. It got worse, I think, after they removed /r/all. But the introduction of New Reddit, destruction of 3rd party APIs, and more just continued the destruction after the shift in the userbase. I can't believe how many comments are "Bro is like xxx" or "bruuuuuuuuuh" and such low effort shit.

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u/B_dorf 7h ago

I remember when using an emoji would get you downvoted to oblivion!

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 7h ago

I tried out the new Digg right at its re-launch and it was essentially dead. But looks like there's some activity now, I might give that a shot.

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u/RedAero 4h ago

/r/all was "removed" (it wasn't it's still there) last year, this site went to shit a decade ago.

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u/Bladelink 6h ago

Me on mobile currently, browsing old.reddit.com: 🤔