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/ThePassionOfTheISK 8h ago edited 8h ago

Does YouTube understand they're not immune to a future where users walk away from their platform?

They've dropped in quality and they continue to drop in quality.

At some point the content creators leave and the consumers leave. They really should be focused on fixing their degraded algorithm. It worked better in 2010.

50% of what I get suggested appears to be new accounts who use AI video and AI narrators. I use the site mainly for long form videos. Information and education. Like news and science. And all of the legit people are being replaced by unknowns. It's TRASH.

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u/Upset_Ant2834 7h ago edited 7h ago

Unfortunately it is practically impossible for a real competitor to exist, and they know it. The infrastructure needed to handle petabytes of data every day and streaming it to millions of users is incomprehensible. YouTube itself couldn't handle it and was hemorrhaging money trying to keep up, which is why selling to Google was really the only choice they had. Even then with Google's limitless resources it struggled for years to become profitable. Really only an existing tech giant even has the means, but they're not dumb enough to dump billions of dollars into a slim chance they can steal enough users from Google to make it work

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u/RemarkableWish2508 4h ago

PeerTube exists and can solve the streaming issue... but lazy people will always prefer the network effect of centralized platforms.