Upvoted for acknowledging the madness of YouTube. It’s a broken platform and this crazy comment deletion that doesn’t even work properly and deletes completely normal comments is the worst thing they’ve done ever since its inception, tbh.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
You know you don’t have to use these big tech platforms right?
Stop bowing down to their madness and just be OK with not having YouTube. It’s not like water you know. You don’t need them to survive.
PlogLod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
squaresinger@feddit.de 10 months ago
Have you heard of the fact that it’s not Youtube who is deleting comments but that it’s the responsibility of the channel owners?
PlogLod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I already addressed this here in another comment right after I posted because I know people always claim this lol (based on what I saw of Reddit threads discussing this issue). No it’s not the creators, it’s 100% YouTube bots. There’s a slight possibility it could be people working for YouTube in certain cases on popular channels but mostly it’s definitely bots. I often know the creators personally and they’ve confirmed they’re not deleting them and they don’t know why it happens.
1984@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Google likes to tell lies like they don’t delete comments, but they do all the time.
squaresinger@feddit.de 10 months ago
Then you are probably shadowbanned on Youtube directly. Can happen if you post too much shit too frequently.
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 10 months ago
The only problem - everyone uses it. And it’s a good source of info for all sorts of things (disassembly tutorials, DIY, etc.).
PlogLod@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly, everyone uses it. Otherwise I would 100% be using Oddysee or something like that. The problem is all the main content is on YouTube so I want to be able to comment on YouTube.
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 10 months ago
I don’t comment on YT to be honest… or very rarely… it has to be something that if found REALLY REALLY interesting or informative to comment.
crsu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There is more misinformation than information on Youtube
0x4E4F@infosec.pub 10 months ago
Look at the DIY and disassembly tutorials, I can vouch that most (if not all) of them are great and don’t misinform on anything.