Has YouTube experienced enshittification?

  • nucleative@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    If the video is about an ongoing event, say the Titan submarine disaster, I’d rather watch videos posted last week them videos posted a year ago, because the new info makes the old content irrelevant.

    If a search for videos about how to perform carbon fiber layups shows one with 1.2m views in the last year and another with 5k views from the past 6 years, I will probably watch the better performing video first.

    But if I want to see a video about some esoteric subject like how the bathyscaphe triste worked, that isn’t really changing much, I don’t care about post date or view count.

    • essteeyou@lemmy.world
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      Date is relevant information. I need it as part of my decision-making. Same as choosing between videos with 12 views and those with 10k views. It’s not everything, but it’s part of the equation. Let me fucking choose.