That‘s an interesting hypothesis. I‘ve also mentioned a shift in the algorithm that favors smaller channels a little more in another comment.

If we take into account that a lot more people also browse Youtube shorts now and older channels have been struggling with it then we have a good mix of things that drive potential viewers away from many channels.

It horrifies me as a German. They also get titles, descriptions and comments wrong all the time. It legitimately doesn’t work.

The overwhelming majority of Youtube visitors use the official app and even those who use a browser don’t have an adblock 88% of the time if my memory serves me right. So no, it’s not adblock.

I‘ve read some complains directly from people when it was happening. It‘s honestly not hard to believe that people get frustrated when a service with a good track record on availability spontaneously goes down for a few hours. It‘s okay when you say that you don‘t care though. I wasn‘t personally affected. But it did happen.

Purchasing and downloading are different services within Steam. You could update and download games just fine during that period. You just couldn‘t buy anything new for a while. And yes I have seen people complain about it on a Discord for example so there was a degree of frustration.

I‘ve noticed the algorithm drizzles a good portion of smaller creators on my front page in recent months and that part is growing. I am talking about videos with just a few thousand or few hundred views that make up roughly 10-15 percent of my recommendations or so.

I think Youtube is diversifying exposure so you don‘t see the same faces you‘ve seen the past 15 years as often and new channels get a chance to grow. I am guessing Youtube doesn‘t want to be too dependent on the same huge channels anymore either.

Of course that means huge creators are calling to the pitch forks and torches because they lose revenue but why should I care? Most of them are rich anyway and don‘t necessarily produce better videos than someone with their phone in their garage workshop or a bunch of college students in their dorms. If anything it feels more like the old Youtube again.

There is a lot wrong with Youtube but I couldn‘t care less about huge channels being forced to slim down or try harder.

Eventually they‘ll go full circle (literally) and come back to scrolls.

It‘s a known fact for some years that the Chinese government steals organs from minorities in camps and criminals. I think a lot of people simply chose to not believe it because it‘s hard to stomach such cruelty on this scale.

Unfortunately AAA studios have a long rat tail of unproductive execs and managers that take a huge pay cut and investors need to be happy too so their games will soon cost $100.

The best US propaganda has always been the arts. Music, movies, literature and games. Replace it with AI and you get the type of slopaganda that doesn‘t really work. Especially since everyone can do it. The USA is just paving it‘s way further into irrelevancy.

It can be stopped just like climate change but we won‘t and kill humanity instead apparently.

Because they profit from it in several ways. Leaving the EU would completely expose Orban to the likes of Putin and Xi with little to no bargain chip. He needs something his country could theoretically turn back to when relationships go sour and go sour they will if things degress the way they do in these countries.

Blu-Ray is kind of a pain to deal with, but that’s more of a Blu-Ray problem than a VLC problem I guess.

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Hand in Hand gehen die schon lange, nur eben mit Messern hinterm Rücken.

Die meisten rechtspopulistischen Lügen fundieren auf Identität und Angst. Das kannst du Leuten nicht einfach nehmen, indem du eine UNO-Reverse Karte zückst. Zudem glauben die eh schon, dass du der Lügner bist.

And the AoE franchise tried that at least twice and failed.

Weil du ungefähr 10 mal so lange brauchst eine Lüge zu widerlegen, als sie zu erfinden.

Any major platform owned by a major corporation is a potential (and often practical) manipulation engine. AI already creeps into Social Media and only amplifies what platforms want you to see anyway.

Nennt sich Schule. Da ist Indoktrinierung schon im Namen. Da nehmen sich öffentliche und private absolut nichts. In unserem System kommen die weiter, die gehorchen.