A slightly unusual video from the fantastic Technology Connections channel. It articulates a lot of my own thoughts on social media, “algorithms” and AI.
What surprised me the most was the statistic that only 3% of author’s views come from the subscriptions feed. This is wild to me because subscriptions are pretty much the only way I have ever used YouTube.
My subscription system now is a docker image that downloads interesting channels I specify or videos I add to a playlist. I do wonder how those metrics show up in analytics.
I stopped using recommendations when I accidently clicked on AI slop and that crap started taking over. It’s useless to me now. If I use the legitimate YouTube interface, I spend half the time hiding shorts, slop, reruns, and jumpcuts-make-me-interesting influencers talking at me. Ugh.
YouTube used to be people who wanted to do or share things without kickbacks. Those are the channels I miss.
Which docker image? Or is it custom?
On Android, YTDLnis has an Observe Sources option that can download channels or playlists. Is it something like that?
I use tubesync.