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Youtube Disliked the Dislikes (lemmy.world)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 104 points 4 months ago (9 children)

Any service only cares about engagement so the dislike was never really useful because the core of engagement is rage bait. The only way to truly downvote content is to not engage with it whatsoever. Ex. The only way to dislike Instagram is to not use the platform

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  • [–] 9 points 4 months ago

    Yes! I'm not on insta or TikTok, but people will share horrible things like "can you believe they said this?" And yes, quite frankly I can because here you are commenting on it and sharing it. It's like people don't understand the concept of engagement. If someone has a video abusing their child, just report the video and potentially send it to the authorities if needed. Don't comment and share the video!

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  • [–] 23 points 4 months ago (4 children)

    The problem is that sometimes you can't know whether the content is worth engaging until you view it. At least YouTube shorts still have the "Don't recommend channel" option.

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  • [–] 11 points 4 months ago

    Yea, about that. I have a channel that no matter how many times i say "don't recommend me this channel" i would keep getting it, to comedic effect. Like i would press the button and then immediately get the same channel 4 times in a row. I have now pressed that button maybe 30 times and it is still showing up. Fuck YouTube.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

    True but one can mitigate engagement. View < comment < like < share < follow and so on (not exactly sure of the order but you get the idea). Maybe the best would be to block the account after following or report the content, that is short of leaving the platform all together.

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