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That’ll work great. More SEO to pigeonhole videos that will be abused by creators.
…okay.
Use Freetube, people.
This is the answer
But this is for desktop?
Yes.
Then how is this helpful for a feature on the mobile app?
Then why did you recommend FreeTube in the first place? I’m fully aware of LibreTube, Newpipe and Grayjay, but I choose to use Revanced due to factors mentioned in other comment. Using an alternative clients such as those listed above does not solve the global issue of Google making fucking stupid decisions, even if you yourself are not touched by them because you happen to use Newpipe
Seems like an interesting spin on what is basically ’random’. Probably a decent way to get content in front of users that might be outside their normal recommendations.
Is it some essential new feature, no, it’s just a bit of fun to find some new content.
I was feeling optimistic about it because I’m always wanting some way to get more diversity into my recommendations. I was disappointed when it mostly presented the same videos I’d been seeing in my recommendations anyway, just only those with a particular color in the thumbnail.
Mate, just make sure you’re not getting into trouble with all that positive thinking, ok? Take care.
It seems like a feature that should be implemented April 1,and April 1 alone, and is tone-deaf to the actual problems on the platform.
That was my first thought when I saw this “feature” show up the other day. It actually made me laugh.
their good devs and engineers have left
I have questions
So this is the pattern of the typical youtube consumer, mindless browsing?
Unironically, yes it is.
Would someone please tell YouTube that gradients are not colors.
Probably another method of gathering user data for their AI training models.
I no longer think that big media corporations are doing stupid things for no reason because they’re dumb
I think they do stupid things because they want another way to train their dumb AI and we’re all too dumb, mindless and powerless to say or do anything about it all.
It’s crazy when you think about it … humanity is degrading itself from all corners just to raise an idiot AI child that will be just as messed up as we are.
Lol I’ve always wanted to be able to find videos that contain red, green or blue
Fortunately the other colors don’t interest me
I just used it and I thought it was kind of cute. It’s obviously “useless”, but as a small (I assume temporary) change I thought it was interesting to see how different “genres” of videos tend to color code themselves in the thumbnail.
I’m all for small, fun little things in websites. Like anytime google has an interactive daily theme
This is just farts and whistles, though
Fair, but so are most of the little interactive google things. I still like them.
Seems great for giving more options for people who want this. I know a few neurodiverse people who would love something like this.
Just because it doesn’t work for you doesn’t mean it’s bad.
Holy crap, the amount of hate in here, and no actual description of what it does. It’s essentially your normal home feed, but only the videos with thumbnails of the selected color. It’s also way over at the right of the home feed filters, so it isn’t like it’s being shoved down your throats.
Doesn’t stop it from being a dumb, pointless feature.
Why bother caring? Doesn’t make a difference to me.
I care because it shows YouTube is more interested in wasting resources on dumb, pointless features rather than fixing various problems that have been plaguing content creators over the years
The resources used to implement this aren’t the same as the ones that would be used to address some of the other issues, as the ones I know of are more social/legal ones.
I bet this was mostly done by a single coder who showed it off and management thought it was a fun thing so added it to the main site.
At this point I feel like it’s intentional, and either way, am not surprised. Unlike a lot of other commentors here, I don’t see the point in wasting mental power on worrying about it.
For me it was embedded in my feed, not in some remote setting
Yea, seems like a fun and quirky feature, but unfortunately I don’t think there’s anything big tech companies can do at this point to turn things around with public opinion given how utterly egregious their other sins have been (and continue to be).
Most people love YouTube, I know it doesn’t feel like it when you’re inside the Lemmy bubble but the big tech companies are far more popular than anything we like
I love the videos on it, and fist off I liked the site too, but they have been enshittifying it pretty hard lately
Fun quirky features are things you make when you have a good product.
These types of features added to things with genuine ongoing problems will always piss off users.
Always bet on black. :)
How revolutionaly. How disruptive. How innovative. /s
I just want the videos i’ve subscribed for to actually show up in my sub feed. That’s really it, man.
People are Google are being paid upwards of 200-300k a year to do this. It’s a prime example of doing something just to fulfill your quote on the kanban board
Your sub feed?
The Home tab is where they seem to mix videos from subscribed and recommended creators. I highly suspect payments influence the frequency of subscribed recommendations on the homepage. (Subscribed) Colbert used to show on Home, then NEVER EVER did again for YEARS until a few weeks ago. Now he gets top placement, several days in a row.
You see random videos on the subscription tab? (Admittedly I don’t use it.)
I don’t really want recommendations for anything. I just want my subscribed channels to appear in my subscriptions page. More than half of the videos from these channels are missing, because the algorithm decided they’re not what I want to see. If a channel I’m subbed to posts something, I want to see it in this list. No exceptions
