Over the time new youtube videos crop up talking about reddit, twitch and twitter issues. And in those comment sections I always like to spread the word of alternatives (like the fediverse). But whenever I do, those comments get quietly removed even though they seem to be posted in the first place.

Whenever I try to add further details, for example name dropping lemmy/bin pixelfeed peertube and mastodon, to previously posted comments those error out and gets deleted entirely.

Anyone else made that observation?

  • chonglibloodsport@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    I wouldn’t worry about it too much. YouTube comments are the absolute bottom of the barrel in terms of quality engagement. They mostly exist to give people a place to vent when the video creator annoys them!

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      I miss the old YouTube comments. Just like Reddit. Nothing of use anymore and if there is you have to scroll for ages to find it.

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    Open source alternatives are a threat. They cannot control information there. I bet all of them are blacklisted.

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      1 year ago

      I’m not expert, but I think among all social media, YT would be the safest against the Fediverse, due to the massive amount of storage and bandwidth it requires.

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    I tried commenting on two videos yesterday and included links to topic-related websites, and they were deleted.

    I checked the TOS and they caution about including inappropriate links in replies, but those weren’t that.

    It seems the channel can include links but users can’t. Haven’t tested it much past that point either.

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    YouTube comments have always been a veiled lie. There’s some sort of algorithm at work not to mention the dislike button on comments just doesn’t work. I wouldn’t put too much thought behind it, if anything I’d say discussing it on Reddit/Twitter is a better way to get heard.

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      1 year ago

      True other media would be better to get heard, but when youtube users geniuenly asks about alternatives, why not try to provide them.

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    1 year ago

    Do you add links in your YouTube comments? If so, then that’s the reason. Don’t add links in YouTube comments.

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    1 year ago

    We could all give traffic to this video to help. Make sure to like it as well as watch it all the way through. No, I am not in any way affiliated with that channel.

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    1 year ago

    I have never read a YouTube comment in my whole life that has ever demonstrated any value to anyone or anything ever

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    1 year ago

    i noticed this too. i watched multiple videos about how big tech is ruining the internet and i always comment telling folks to come to the fediverse, but whem i came back later to check on it i noticed my comment just want there. maybe a bug or maybe google is trying to stifle the open internet?

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    1 year ago

    I’m not saying this is untrue, it may only apply to certain combinations of words or maybe even only channels over a certain size. But I’ve been chatting to a couple people over on YT about Mastodon the last few days, and nothing untoward happened to our convos.

    That said, a lot of the time perfectly normal comments get flagged as spam for literally no reason at all, so it could just be general incompetence rather than malicious targeting.