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[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 40 points 6 months ago

Don’t care until it’s not 98% ads and promoted content

[–] thehatfox@lemmy.world 29 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Youtube has made similar changes a while back. YouTube recommendations feature small/tiny channels with few subscribers a lot more often.

It’s mixed results for viewers but it does help to good small channels to not be drowned out by the bigger players.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 14 points 6 months ago

Oh! That's why I've been finding tiny channels with oddly well made videos lately.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

It's a play to try to fix the algo. Large creators have gaming the system down to a science and it's making the experience as bad as yaho... google search.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

I was quite proud of my profile there. I had over 300 high quality photographs there taken by me and zero bullshit like pictures of meals etc. After using it for close to 10 years I had gained 32 subscribers and was getting around 10 likes on average. I just stopped posting and left. Why bother if no one is even seeing them. I'm not going to start spamming several posts a week just to please the algorithms, I post when I have something of value to show. This comes too late. I'm already gone.

[–] philodendron@lemdro.id 8 points 6 months ago

Now it seems like posts don’t even work anymore. It’s all about stories and reels

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago
[–] xcjs@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago

Or maybe just let me focus on who I choose to follow? I'm not there for content discovery, though I know that's why most people are.