A slightly unusual video from the fantastic Technology Connections channel. It articulates a lot of my own thoughts on social media, “algorithms” and AI.

What surprised me the most was the statistic that only 3% of author’s views come from the subscriptions feed. This is wild to me because subscriptions are pretty much the only way I have ever used YouTube.

  • Spezi@discuss.tchncs.de
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    15 hours ago

    Wow. That RSS feature surely is like >15 years old and by now it’s so irrelevant they just forgot to shut it down. Because no one uses RSS anymore these days, and subscribing like that does absolutely nothing for YouTube’s business model.

    • jarfil@beehaw.org
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      4 hours ago

      I’m still using RSS. YouTube lives off ads/subscriptions, they don’t care how you find the videos.