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Youtube Algorithm - views going down across platform pushing people to shorts (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 days ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to c/videos@lemmy.world
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Original title: No, Seriously. Youtube’s New Algorithm Just Changed Everything

Just FYI not sure about the creator but other creators are saying some similar things across the board.

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[–] lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.com 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I am the kind of person who wants the content of channels I subscribed to 95% of the time.

I was annoyed with bs all the time. Self hosting Invidious solved it for me.

No shorts, no ads, no home area deaigned by Google, no cookie banner, no forcing to log in, just a clean UI...

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

Just not the content

I don't go to YouTube for its shitty UI or algorithm,or ads... I go there for the content that I want to wath