I'm inclined to agree.
Honestly I think YouTube just doesn't do a good job of explaining what Subscribing is meant to be. If you use it as you would "follow" on other social media sites, it's not going to be a good experience.
Which is precisely why I wish YT would allow for finer controls.
Honestly I think YouTube just doesn't do a good job of explaining what Subscribing is meant to be. If you use it as you would "follow" on other social media sites, it's not going to be a good experience.
Which is precisely why I wish YT would allow for finer controls.
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If more YTers were diligent about playlist updating/organization, I'd use a "subscribe to playlist" option.
YTer posts videos about x, y, and z but I only watch z. They add all z videos to a playlist, and I sub-subscribe! No x or y for me, subs for them!
It'd be extremely useful if you could select a video and say "show me less of this" and it actually showed less instead of eliminating it from your feed altogether.
Goodhart's law says: "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes."
Subscribing was *meant* for one purpose, but once it was used for a second purpose (a "super-like"), the first was corrupted.
Very similar to SSN in the US, which was never meant to be a national ID.
I blame YT for not making it clear how those paradigms are different. Deprioritizing subs and the subs feed was a choice.
I am very confused.
I don't watch everything in my subs feed but I curate it enough to make it fully manageable. That curation, though, is different from person to person and that's kind of the whole deal with folks not realizing "subs is only useful as a tool if you're discerning"
Quality over quantity.
When I get annoyed by a follow or sub, it only takes a moment to unfollow. Problem solved.
But that's down to how we as individuals imagine its purpose.
1. Allow me to bundle subs into categories (Science, History, etc.)
2. Allow channels to separate their content into sub-channels that I can sub individually to (for yours, perhaps Technology Connextras could be a sub-channel instead of a separate account/channel)