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.
Great video, as always. I would suggest PocketTube for Firefox for controlling the chaos of YouTube subscriptions. I don’t see shorts at all, and if I’m not looking for, say, music or Star Trek content, I can just turn those categories off.