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I always see it as more of a social media company rather than a media co.
by lemonish97 5mo ago
I always see it as more of a social media company rather than a media co.
- busymom0 5mo agoI often comment on videos but never do I check replies to my comments there.
- kami23 5mo agoI went to see if I had any replies to a comment I left on a video for the first time today and it's really hidden to get back to them if you don't remember the exact video. I wonder if it's purposeful friction or just not a priority.
- squigz 5mo agoClick History on the homepage left sidebar > Comments on right side of History page https://www.youtube.com/feed/history https://www.youtube.com/feed/history
- croes 5mo agoAnd now try to find the comment someone replied to
- squigz 5mo agoOh, fair enough. That is indeed not shown anywhere it seems.
- loevborg 5mo agoI agree. I wonder how people are motivated to comment if they can't even track replies or check likes. It certainly completely kills motivation for me
- squigz 5mo agoDo you and GP not get notifications for replies and (at least some) likes?
- kami23 5mo agoIn my case I have almost all notifications disabled so maybe there's an option somewhere. Generally find those notification badges too powerful for me to not check and then get waylaid doom scrolling/watching, so I've made it a habit to always disable them everywhere. Somewhat tempted to re-enable it as I only really comment on videos that are for very very niche communities and I'm usually answering or asking questions.
- croes 5mo agoI get the notifications but it’s sometimes hard to know for which comment if it’s more than one in a discussion.
- loevborg 5mo agoI don't think I get notified but maybe it's because my replies are unpopular
- Acrobatic_Road 5mo agohow do you resist the urge to click on the red notification icon?
- inquirerGeneral 5mo ago[dead]
- RobRivera 5mo agoAnd so many comments may aswell be bots. >anyone here in CURRENTYEAR >This is scene is so [adjective] Not exactly a forum, more like a concert crowd
- esafak 5mo ago"Who's here from Hacker News??"
- unclad5968 5mo agoI tried to one time, but I couldn't even figure it out so I gave up.
- raincole 5mo agoJust anecdotes, but I feel YouTube comments are the bottom of social media. Even Twitter and Reddit are better. But if the 99% garbage is the price of the emerging of channels like 3B1B, I think it's still a pretty good deal.
- keiferski 5mo agoI don’t agree at all. This was true a decade ago, but today YouTube comments are almost all positive, and you’ll often get some really insightful ones too.
- redwall_hp 5mo agoChannels can moderate their comments too. So channels run by thoughtful, community-oriented people will zap trash comments. The music production sphere is especially good.
- keiferski 5mo agoMaybe I’m just really lucky, but I feel like almost all the channels I watch have supportive, normal comments at the top. Especially on music related videos. Maybe that’s just moderation, but I feel like it could just be self-selection.
- raincole 5mo ago> but today YouTube comments are almost all positive Yeah, exactly. I believe this is the main reason the quality is so bad. Comments with any negative language get pushed down, creating an empty (sometimes toxic), artificial positive atmosphere.
- asdfman123 5mo agoTo be fair, Youtube isn't about the comments and the discussion. The comments are sort of there just to give feedback to the creators and serve as a signal to the YouTube algorithm.
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- carlosjobim 5mo agoThere's nothing social about it. You don't add your friends and chat with your friends on YouTube.
- rconti 5mo agoIf you watch Shorts, maybe. If you watch normal videos, the comments are pretty much an afterthought. But even shorts, assuming they're like reels/stories, the "social" aspect is very minimal compared with, say, Facebook posts back in the day, where your friends would see and comment and reply to each other. The Algorithm doesn't really want that anymore; it wants to feed you content from arbitrary people to keep you passively engaged, not to foster conversation/active engagement.