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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?
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this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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YT algorithm favors videos that are at least 10 minutes (they fit more ads in) so those get recommended more. As a result, runtimes get padded with fluff so you get recommended to more viewers.
Thatβs disgusting.
I feel like relying on the algorithms completely misses the human elements.
If I need an answer to something, I want my top results to be short and sweet. If I want a documentary or dj set, I donβt want a 3-10 minute version.
You asked for doughy buns, you got doughy buns
@4am @swan_pr And it's much harder to sell ads on text instructions π
The ad-driven nature of the internet means we get that instead of what we want.
@codefolio @4am @swan_pr which is fine, if people want to get paid for providing tutorials or instructions, then that's good for them, if advertising is the mechanism to allow that, then so be it.
@keith @4am @swan_pr
It's still hard that it cuts off the early internet. Ads driven by search engines means SEO, which mean making it *very* hard to find the kind of instructions you can't sell ads on.
It's understandable that people write what they can get paid for. It's hard that the early Internet methods of doing this are now effectively dead, with no replacement.
@Tooden @keith @4am @swan_pr
Unfortunately, no. The answer to "ads drive off good content with ad-friendly content" is not going to be more ad-friendly content.
That's already driven the payments for ads down well below liveable levels. Making the content more cheaply is only going to increase that trend.
You can still make content better than what makes sense for ad-supported. But it's going to be buried even deeper in the ad-ecosystem deluge, so it won't really be findable.
@keith @codefolio @4am @swan_pr people should get paid for their efforts, but advertising and algorithms negatively impact the quality of what they produce.
@4am @swan_pr It'd be nice if they do that padding at the end, not the beginning.
@4am @swan_pr
Except now they're also pushing shorts (which is so stupid).
@4am @swan_pr :masto_flushed:
Of course, it all depends on the context. A tutorial for a specific knitting stitch can be done in under 5 minutes, other stuff not so much! There was also an interesting thread somewhere yesterday asking why don't people use their subscription feed on YT and the answers were a good representation of the user base here, ie: most do use it and avoid the algo at all costs! So I think we're all on the same page here, we search and use YT in a way that is most efficient but not the most common :)