Comment on Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube
admiralteal@kbin.social 1 year agoThat should mean engagement. It serves up such bad videos that I disengage.
Once in a while I'll realize I just spent 20, 30 minutes looking at a streak of pretty decent stuff. Rare enough to be remarkable. Usually after just 3 or 4 consecutive crap clips I'll close it down and get back to work.
I doubt anything disengages a user faster than low-quality content. I bet it does it even faster than the authoritarian politics and bigotry YouTube seems to inexorable serve you.
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
If that were true, it wouldn't be the way it is.
Just because it causes your disengagement, doesn't mean it causes disengagement with the vast majority of their userbase.
They're also more concerned with ad views and clicks, so if you're not the kind of person who gives a crap about ads... they don't really care that much about you.
admiralteal@kbin.social 1 year ago
This is predicated on the belief that Google/YouTube is run in a 100% hyper-competent way. I don't buy that.
Google does things the easiest way possible to make tons of money. They make unforced errors all the damn time.
Zorque@kbin.social 1 year ago
And yours is predicated on the belief that they're all super-incompetent and have no capability of doing anything right ever... which is confusing considering they're a multi-billion dollar company and not just some guy in a shack banging rocks together to see how they sound.
admiralteal@kbin.social 1 year ago
Nope. It's only this specific thing that I necessarily think they're doing a bad job of. And I'm right; they are. Their algorithm is a struggling baby compared to TikTok and YouTube at large is not a major profit center (and indeed may not be profitable at all -- but they maintain it because abandoning it would be too costly for them).