Comment on Do people just not use the YouTube subscription feed?
Gamey@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s not about the bell, with it Youtube also introduction the algorythm to the subscription feed and essentially made some videos not show up consistantly anymore if I am not totally wrong (it’s been a while and I was a lot younger back then)
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Your sub feed is not affected by anything, only by your subs.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 11 months ago
Aux@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Items temporarily disappear from sub page due to distributed nature of YouTube. It has too much information and too many users to work in a traditional way. This is not an “algorithm”, it’s just a synchronisation issue. It happens on all huge platforms. People frequently “disappear” from your friend list on Facebook and then reappear a couple of days later.
YouTube added a bell to reduce synchronization issues. Bells are temporary notifications, not persistent data, so it is handled completely differently.