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/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/rokatoro 10h ago

Even that's getting worse. My home page is full off newish 0 upvote threads full of rage and usually written by AI

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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/lmpervious 8h ago

Turn off the suggested feed.

We need a law where all social media needs to offer this. I think that’s very realistic to pass, and ideally also to have it off by default.

People being fed the same information from one perspective over and over is not healthy for our society. When people hear something 100 times and see everyone else agreeing with it, almost anyone in that situation will believe it, even if they are a skeptical person and believe they won’t fall for misinformation. That’s why we see people living in completely different realities.